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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
SOCIAL SECURITY
Made
4th March 2004
Coming into operation
6th April 2004
Whereas the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made an Order(1) under section 148A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(2):
Now, therefore, the Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 130A of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(3) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Social Security Pensions (Low Earnings Threshold) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2004.
2. It is hereby directed that, for the purposes of the Contributions and Benefits Act, the low earnings threshold(4) for the tax years following the tax year 2003-2004 shall be £11,600.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 4th March 2004.
L.S.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order, which corresponds to an Order (S.I. 2004/263) made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under section 148A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, directs that the low earnings threshold, for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, for the tax years following 2003-2004 shall be £11,600. The low earnings threshold is used for the purposes of calculating entitlement to the additional pension (the state second pension) in a state retirement pension.
S.I. 2004/263
1992 c. 8; section 130A was inserted by section 32 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)). See also Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
See section 44A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7); section 44A was inserted by section 29(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 and amended by paragraph 30 of Schedule 1 to the National Insurance Contributions Act 2002 (c. 19) subject to section 8(2) of that Act and by Article 2(2)(a)(i) of S.R. 2002 No. 321; see also Article 2 of S.R. 2003 No. 85
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