The Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2016 No. 223

Social Security

The Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made

3rd May 2016

Laid before Parliament

10th May 2016

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1)(s), 165(1), (4) to (6) and 167(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1) and Articles 2(2) and 74(1) and (5) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(2).

Those powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 4(1)(b) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015(3).

(1)

1992 c. 8; section 5(1)(s) is substituted by Article 106(1) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (N.I.1), in section 165 subsection (1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and section 18(5) of the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c. 7) and subsections (5A) and (5B) are inserted by Article 108(1) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 and section 167(1) is cited for the meaning of “prescribe” and “regulations”.

(2)

S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10); Article 74(1) was amended by paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) and Article 2(2) is cited for the meaning of “prescribe”.