Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

143 General financial arrangements. N.I.

(1) There shall be paid out of the National Insurance Fund—

[F1 (za) state pension and lump sums under Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015;]

[F2 (zb) bereavement support payment under section 29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015;]

(a) benefit under Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act;

(b) guardian’s allowance;

(c) Christmas bonus if the relevant qualifying benefit is payable out of that Fund;

[F3 (d) any sum which under. regulations relating to statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, statutory adoption pay [F4 , [F5 statutory paternity pay [F6 , statutory shared parental pay or statutory parental bereavement pay]]] , falls to be paid by or on behalf of the Inland Revenue or to be set off against sums payable to the Inland Revenue otherwise than on account of contributions;]

F7 (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) There shall be paid out of money appropriated by Measure—

(a) any administrative expenses of the Department or any other government department in carrying into effect the Contributions and Benefits Act [F8 , Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015] [F9 , section 29 of that Act] or this Act;

[F10 (aa) any administrative expenses of the Department in supplying information about benefits under Part II of that Act in accordance with regulations under Article 21 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.]

(b) benefit under Part III of that Act, other than guardian’s allowance;

(c) benefit under Part V of that Act;

F7 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

except in so far as they may be required by any enactment to be paid or borne in some other way.

(3) The administrative expenses referred to in subsection (2)(a) above include those in connection with any inquiry [F11 undertaken-

(a) on behalf of the Inland Revenue with a view to obtaining statistics relating to the operation of Part I of the Contributions and Benefits Act, and

(b) on behalf of the Department with a view to obtaining statistics relating to the operation of Parts II to VI and XI of that Act [F12 or Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015] [F13 or section 29 of that Act] .]

(4) Any sums required by [F14 any person] for the purpose of paying any secondary Class 1 contributions [F15 , or any Class 1A contributions,] which are payable by him in respect of an earner in consequence of the earner’s employment in an office of which the emoluments are payable out of the Consolidated Fund shall be paid out of that Fund.

(5) Any expenditure in respect of the payment of interest or repayment supplements under or by virtue of paragraph 6 [F16 or 7B] of Schedule 1 to the Contributions and Benefits Act or paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to that Act shall be defrayed out of the National Insurance Fund in accordance with any directions given by the [F17 Treasury].

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 143(1)(za) inserted (6.4.2016 unless brought into operation earlier by an order under s. 53(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 12 para. 19(2)

F2 Words in s. 143(1)(zb) inserted (6.4.2017) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(1), Sch. 16 para. 29(2); S.R. 2017/44, art. 2(2) (with arts. 3, 4)

F3 S. 143(1)(d) substituted (8.12.2002) by The Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(2), 7(1); S.R. 2002/356, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. II

F4 Words in s. 143(1)(d) substituted (1.10.2010) by The Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 25; S.R. 2010/295, art. 3(d)

F5 Words in s. 143(1)(d) substituted (15.3.2015 for specified purposes, 5.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 1), s. 23(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(4); S.R. 2015/86, arts. 3(2)(i), 4(2)(h), 5 (with art. 7(2))

F6 Words in s. 143(1)(d) substituted (23.3.2022) by Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 5), ss. 4, 5(5)(6), Sch. Pt. 1 para. 12; S.R. 2022/136, arts. 2, 3

F7 S. 143(1)(e)(2)(d) repealed (6.10.1997) by S.I. 1997/1183 (N.I. 12), art. 31(1)(2), Sch. 3, para. 5, Sch. 4; S.R. 1997/400, art. 2(2)

F8 Words in s. 143(2)(a) inserted (6.4.2016 unless brought into operation earlier by an order under s. 53(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 12 para. 19(3)

F9 Words in s. 143(2)(a) inserted (6.4.2017) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(1), Sch. 16 para. 29(3); S.R. 2017/44, art. 2(2) (with arts. 3, 4)

F10 S. 143(2)(aa) inserted (1.12.2000) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), art. 74, Sch. 9 para. 15 (with art. 75); S.R. 2000/133, art. 2(3)(d), Sch. Pt. IV

F11 Words in s. 143(3) substituted (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/671, art. 4, Sch. 3 para. 46(2) (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 7); S.R. 1999/149, art. 2(c), Sch. 2 (subject to arts. 3-6 of the said S.R.)

F12 Words in s. 143(3)(b) inserted (6.4.2016 unless brought into operation earlier by an order under s. 53(1) of the amending Act) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 12 para. 19(4)

F13 Words in s. 143(3)(b) inserted (6.4.2017) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(1), Sch. 16 para. 29(4); S.R. 2017/44, art. 2(2) (with arts. 3, 4)

F14 S. 143(4) to have effect (retrospectively) as if for "a secondary Class 1 contributor"

there were substituted "any person" by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), arts. 1(3), 62(1)

F15 S. 143(4) to have effect (retrospectively) as if after "any secondary Class 1 contributions" there were inserted ", or any Class 1A contributions," by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), arts. 1(3), 62(1)

F16 Words in s. 143(5) inserted (6.4.1999) by S.I. 1998/1506, art. 78(1), Sch. 6 para. 78(2); S.R. 1999/102, art. 2(d), Sch. Pt. III

F17 Word in s. 143(5) substituted (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/671, art. 4, Sch. 3 para. 46(3) (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 7); S.R. 1999/149, art. 2(c), Sch. 2 (subject to arts. 3-6 of the said S.R.)