Industrial Assurance (Northern Ireland) Order 1979

Regulations N.I.

49.—(1) The Department may make regulations—

(a) for prescribing anything which under this Order is to be prescribed;

(b) subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, for imposing fees;

Sub‐para. (c) rep. by 1992 c. 40

(d) with respect to the form of premium receipt books to be provided for the purposes of Article 21, and to the use of such books and the insertion of receipts in them, and, without prejudice to the generality of this sub-paragraph, such regulations may—

(i) provide for the prohibition or restriction in any prescribed circumstances of the use of a single premium receipt book for payments in respect of two or more policies;

(ii) provide for the insertion in premium receipt books provided under Article 21 of statements approved by the Department explaining the effect of any regulations made under section 6 of the Decimal Currency Act 1969 [1969 c.19] ;

(iii) prescribe the information to be entered in premium receipt books for the purpose of explaining the effect of the adoption by a collecting society or an industrial assurance company of a scheme prescribed or approved in pursuance of section 6(3) of the said Act of 1969;

(e) generally for carrying this Order into effect.

(2) All regulations made under this Article shall be laid before the Assembly as soon as may be after they are made, and if an address is presented to the Secretary of State by the Assembly within the statutory period after the regulations are so laid praying that the regulations may be annulled, the Secretary of State may by order annul the regulations; and regulations so annulled shall forthwith become void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything which in the meantime may have been done under them, or to the making of new regulations.