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

PART IX REVOCATIONS, TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS

Revocations

30.  Subject to regulation 31 (3), the regulations set out in column (1) of the Schedule are revoked to the extent mentioned in column (3) of that Schedule.

Transitional provisions and savings

31.—(1) These regulations shall apply to any question relating to the repayment or recoverability of family income supplement and supplementary benefit as though the definition of “benefit” in regulation 1(2) included references to both those benefits and as though any reference in Part VIII to income support was a reference to income support and supplementary benefit.

(2) Anything done or begun under the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) or Part IV of the Supplementary Benefit (Trade Disputes and Recovery from Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1980(2) shall be deemed to have been done or, as the case may be, continued under the corresponding provisions of these regulations.

(3) Where this regulation applies—

(a) regulation 3(b)(ii) shall have effect as though for “the same benefit” there were substituted “income support”, if the interim payment was of supplementary benefit, and “family credit”, if the interim payment was of family income supplement;

(b) regulation 13(b) shall have effect as though for “income support” there were substituted “supplementary benefit”.

(4) In this Part—

“family income supplement” means benefit under the Family Income Supplements Act (Northern Ireland) 1971(3);

“supplementary benefit” means benefit under Part II of the Supplementary Benefits (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(4).

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 122

(2)

S.R. 1980 No. 417; the relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1981 No. 215, S.R. 1982 No. 240, S.R. 1983 Nos. 191 and 290 and S.R. 1984 No. 174

(3)

1971 c. 8 (N.I.)

(4)

S.I. 1977/2156 (N.I. 27); provisions of the Supplementary Benefits (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, as amended by Article 7 of, and Part I of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/870 (N.I. 8)), are set out in Part II of that Schedule