# The State Pension Credit (Decisions and Appeals – Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: N.I.

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations amend –
the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 to provide that certain administrative decisions relating to claims for, and payment of, state pension credit, do not attract a right of appeal (regulation 2);
the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 to provide that no appeal lies against calculations and estimates of the income and capital of a claimant for housing benefit or his partner, where that claimant or his partner has been awarded state pension credit comprising only the savings credit (regulation 3).
In so far as these Regulations are required, for the purposes of regulation 3, to be referred to the Social Security Advisory Committee under section 149(2) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, (“the 1992 Act”), after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee, they have not been so referred by virtue of section 150(1)(b) of the Act. Otherwise they make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the 1992 Act, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.
These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/312/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-decisions-and-appeals-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/note
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