The Income-related Benefits (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2005 No. 550

HOUSING; RATES; SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income-related Benefits (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

8th December 2005

Coming into operation

12th December 2005

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(a) and (d), 132(3) and (4)(b), 132A(3), 134(1)(a) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), Articles 14(1) and (4)(b) and 36(2)(a) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2) and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(3), and now vested in it(4), and sections 15(6)(b) and 19(1), (2)(a) and (3) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(5), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel(6) in so far as regulation 3 is concerned and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of that regulation should not be referred to it(7), hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 132A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N.I.)); section 134(1) was substituted by Article 66(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

(2)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); Article 36(2)(a) was amended by paragraph 55 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.)(Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671)

(3)

S.I. 1997/1183 (N.I. 12)

(4)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(5)

2002 c. 14 (N.I.)

(6)

See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment)(Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(7)

See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)