Introductory text

Northern Ireland

This Statutory Rule has been made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2016 Nos. 216 and 224, S.R 2022 No. 194 and S.R. 2025 No. 136 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Rules.

Social Security

Made 9th October 2026

Coming into operation 30th October 2026

The Department for Communities^f1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(d), 129A(2), 132(3) and (4), 132A(3) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992^f2, and now vested in it^f3, sections 69(8), 69ZC(1) and 165(1), (4) and (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992^f4, paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997^f5, sections 1(5)(b), 15(3) and (6)(b), 17(2)(a) and 19(1) to (3) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002^f6, sections 4(2), 17(1) and (3) and 25(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007^f7, Articles 48(1) and (2), 85(1) and (3), 98 and 99(1) of, and paragraph 4(1) and (3)(a) of Schedule 1, paragraphs 1(1) and 4(1)(b) and (2)(d) of Schedule 6, and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 10 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015^f8.

Regulations 4 and 5 are made with the consent of the Department of Finance^f9.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))
f2: 1992 c. 7. Section 129A was inserted by section 30(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2). Section 132A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (2002 c. 14)
f3: See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
f4: 1992 c. 8; section 69(8) was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) and was amended by section 107(2) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), section 69ZC(1) was inserted by Article 109(1) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)), section 165(1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and Section 18(5) of the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c. 7) and subsection (6) was amended by Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10))
f5: 1997 NI. 1183 (N.I. 12)
f6: 2002 c. 14 (N.I.)
f7: 2007 c. 2 (N.I.)
f8: S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1); see Article 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Cessation of Transitory Provision) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/927)
f9: See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(4) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))