2016 No. 223
Social Security
The Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1)(s), 165(1), (4) to (6) and 167(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 19921 and Articles 2(2) and 74(1) and (5) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 19982.
Those powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 4(1)(b) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 20153.