The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2018 No. 37

Social Security

The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Made

6th March 2018

Laid before Parliament

7th March 2018

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(a), 132(3) and (4)(b), 133(1), 134(1)(a), (2) and (4) and 171(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), sections 5(1)(q), 13A(2), 165(1) and (4) and (6) and 167(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2), Articles 2(2), 14(1) and (4)(b) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3), Articles 2(2), 11(3) and (6), 12(1) and 74(1) and (3) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(4), sections 17(1) and (3)(b) and 24(1) of, the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007(5) and Articles 13, 14, 16 and 22 of the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016(6), makes the following Regulations.

Those powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 4(1) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015(7).

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 133(1) is cited for the meaning of “prescribed” and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21).

(2)

1992 c. 8; section 13A was inserted by paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1309 (N.I. 9)) and subsection (2) was amended by paragraph 9(b) and (c) of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N.I.)), section 165 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), Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and section 18(5) of the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c. 7) and is amended by Article 108(1) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 and section 167(1) is cited for the meaning of “prescribe”.

(3)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); Article 2(2) is cited for the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(4)

S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10); Article 74(1) was amended by paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c.21) and is amended by Article 108(2) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015; there are other amendments but none is relevant. Article 2(2) is cited for the meaning it gives to “prescribe” and “the Administration Act”.

(5)

2007 c. 2 (N.I.); section 24(1) is cited for the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(6)

S.I. 2016/999 (N.I. 1).

(7)

Article 4 was amended by Article 4 of the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016. Functions under or for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 are vested in the Department for Communities by virtue of Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)).