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The State Pension (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

S.R. 2016/88 · Made 1 March 2016

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Social Security

Approved by resolution of the Assembly on 28th June 2016

Made 1st March 2016

Coming into operation 6th April 2016

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 3(1) of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2015(c.5 (N.I.)) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the State Pension Regulations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the State Pension (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2016, immediately after the coming into operation of the State Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015f1.

2Amendment of the State Pension Regulations

After Part 1 of the State Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (general) insert—

“PART 1A

Full rate of State Pension

Full rate of state pension

1A.

The full rate of the state pension for the purposes of section 3(1) of the Act (full rate of state pension) is £155.65 per week.”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 1st March 2016

(L.S.)

Anne McCleary

A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations set the full rate of the new state pension by amending the State Pension Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015 No. 315). The Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5) creates the new state pension for people reaching pensionable age on or after 6th April 2016 (see Part 1 of that Act). It replaces the existing state pension for those people. The full rate is set at £155.65 per week.

Section 3(1) of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015, the enabling power under which these Regulations are made, was brought into operation on 25th February 2016 for the purposes of authorising the making of Regulations by the Pensions (2015 Act) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 68 (C. 4)).