Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2011 No. 136
Housing; Rates; Social Security
The Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011
Made
22nd March 2011
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1
The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(d), 131(1), 132(4)(b), 133(2)(h) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), sections 5(1)(a), (b), (k) and (q), 105A(1A) to (1E), 106(1A) to (1D) and 165(1) and (4) to (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2), Article 74(3), (5) and (6) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(3), and now vested in it(4), and paragraphs 6(7) and 20(1) and (3) of Schedule 7 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000(5).
Regulations 4(2) and (7) to (9) and 5(2), (7) and (8) are made with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel(6).
The Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of regulations 2, 3, 4(2) to (5) and (7) to (9), 5(2) to (5), (7) and (8) and 6 should not be referred to it (7).
1992 c. 7; section 129A was inserted by section 30(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2 (N.I.)) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)
1992 c. 8; section 105A was inserted by Article 12 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11)) and subsections (1A) to (1E) were inserted by section 15(1)(b) of the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 17 (N.I.)); in section 106 subsections (1A) to (1F) were substituted for subsection (1A) by section 15(2) of that Act and in section 165 subsection (1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and subsection (6) was amended by Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10))
See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
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
See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992