Explanatory note

This Order provides for social security legislation to be modified or adapted to take account of changes made by the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 which replaces unemployment benefit by jobseeker’s allowance, in relation to the Orders in Council, and Orders made by the Secretary of State, listed in Schedule 2 to this Order (which give effect to agreements made between the Governments of the United Kingdom and other countries providing for reciprocity in certain social security matters).