Industrial Assurance (Northern Ireland) Order 1979

Miscellaneous N.I.

Notices N.I.

48.  Where any notice is required by this Order to be served upon any member or other person, the notice shall be in writing, and either delivered or sent by post to him, or, in the case of a notice of default, so delivered or sent or left at his last known place of abode.

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.

Arts. 50, 51 rep. by 1992 c. 40

Power to extend references in this Order and other legislation to residence in, or outside, the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man N.I.

52.—(1) If provision for the payment of death grants corresponding to the provision therefor made by or under the enactments relating to social security is made by or under the law of a country or place outside Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State may by order provide for extending the application of—

(a) Article 15(3) of, or paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, this Order; or

Sub‐para. (b) rep. by 1992 c. 40

or for restricting the application of—

(i) paragraph 1 or 2 of Schedule 9 to this Order; or

Head (ii) rep. by 1992 c. 40

subject to any modifications necessitated by differences between any provision made by or under those enactments and the corresponding provision, so as to respectively include or exclude insurances where the funeral expenses in question are those, or the life or death in question is that, of a person who, at the time of the proposal, is ordinarily resident in that country or place, and for any consequential amendments of this Order or the Friendly Societies Act.

(2) The Secretary of State shall not be recommended to make an order under this paragraph until a draft thereof has been laid before the Assembly for the statutory period, and, if the Assembly within that period resolves that further proceedings be not taken in relation thereto, no further proceedings shall be so taken, but without prejudice to the preparation of a fresh draft.

Article 53, with Schedule 8, effects amendments

Saving and transitional provisions N.I.

54.  The saving and transitional provisions specified in Schedule 9 shall have effect for the purposes of this Order.

Article 55, with Schedule 10, effects repeals