Article 2 Modification of Orders made under the National Insurance Act 1965

Any Order in Council specified in Schedule 1 to this Order which was made under section 105 of the National Insurance Act 1965 shall, for the purposes of section 143 of the Social Security Act 1975, have effect subject to the modifications contained in the following provisions of this Order.

Any such Order in Council shall have effect as if the agreement proposed by Her Majesty's Government for modifying the agreement set out in the Schedule to such Order, so as to take account of changes in the legislation of the United Kingdom without otherwise altering the effect of such agreement, had been entered into.

Any reference in any such Order in Council specified in Schedule 1 to this Order to any matter dealt with by, or provision contained in, the National Insurance Acts 1965 to 1974 shall have effect as if it were a reference to the corresponding or most nearly corresponding matter dealt with by, or provision contained in, the Act.

Where in any agreement set out in the Schedule to any such Order in Council there is any reference or provision to the effect set out in any paragraph of column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order, the modifications of any such Order made by the preceding provisions of this Order shall have effect as if the reference or provision set out in the corresponding paragraph of column 2 of the said Schedule 2 were substituted for the former reference or provision so however that this paragraph shall not apply to any act, omission or event occurring before 6th April 1975 or to the National Insurance (Isle of Man Reciprocal Agreement) Order 1948^f1.