The Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988

PART I GENERAL

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 and shall come into operation on 11th April 1988.

(2) In these regulations—

“the Act” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975(1);

“the Order” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;

“adjudicating authority” means, as the case may be, the Chief or any other adjudication officer, a social security appeal tribunal, the Chief or any other Social Security Commissioner or a Tribunal of Commissioners;

“benefit” means any benefit under the Act(2), child benefit, family credit, income support and any payment under Article 33(2)(a) of the Order(3) (maternity and funeral expenses);

“child benefit” means benefit under Part II of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975(4);

“the Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(5);

“family credit” means family credit under Part III of the Order;

"guardian's allowance" means an allowance under section 38 of the Act(6);

“income support” means income support under Part III of the Order and includes personal expenses addition, special transitional addition and transitional addition as defined in the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(7);

“Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(8);

“severe disablement allowance” means an allowance under section 36 of the Act(9).

(1)

1975 c. 15

(2)

Amendments altering the range of benefits available under this Act were made by Articles 2(3), 17, 18 and 24 of the Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (S.I. 1975/1503 (N.I. 15)), Article 32 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/1084 (N.I. 16)), Articles 5 to 7 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Health and Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/1158 (N.I. 8)) and Articles 37 to 43 of, and Schedule 3 and paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

(3)

Article 33(2)(a) was amended by Article 3 of the Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/464 (N.I. 8))

(4)

S.I. 1975/1504 (N.I. 16)

(5)

S.R. 1987 No. 465; the relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 67

(6)

Section 38 was amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 to the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 and Article 46 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

(7)

S.R. 1987 No. 460

(8)

S.R. 1987 No. 459; the relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 146

(9)

Section 36 was amended by Article 5(1) of the Health and Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 and paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.l. 1985/1209 (N.l. 16))