The Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance (Northern Ireland) Order 1991

General

Repeals

12.  The statutory provisions mentioned in Schedule 4 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

Supplementary

13.—(1) The Department may by regulations make—

(a) such consequential provision, or

(b) such savings,

as it considers necessary or expedient in preparation for or in connection with the coming into operation of any provision of this Order or the operation of any statutory provision repealed or amended by a provision of this Order during any period when the repeal or amendment is not wholly in operation.

(2) Subsections (1), (2) and (3A) of section 155 of the principal Act shall apply in relation to the power conferred by this Article to make regulations as they apply in relation to any power conferred by that Act to make regulations, but as if for references to that Act there were substituted references to this Article.

Regulations

14.—(1) Section 156(1) of the principal Act shall apply to—

(a) regulations under Chapter 11 of Part 11 of the principal Act which relate to disability living allowance and are made before the first day in respect of which disability living allowance is payable;

(b) regulations under sections 100A to 100D or section 104A of that Act which relate to attendance allowance or disability living allowance and are made before that day;

(c) regulations under Part 111 of the 1986 Order or under sections 100A to 100D or section 104A of the principal Act which relate to disability working allowance and are made before the first day in respect of which disability working allowance is payable;

(d) the first regulations made under Article 5;

(e) the first regulations made under Article 7;

and any regulations contained in a statutory rule which includes any regulations to which the foregoing sub-paragraphs apply.

(2) Regulations under this Order, other than those to which section 156(1) of the principal Act applies, shall be subject to negative resolution.

(3) If the Department of Finance and Personnel so directs, regulations under this Order shall be made only in conjunction with it.