Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Exiting The European Union
Social Security
Made
17th April 2019
Coming into operation
7th May 2019
The Department for Communities(1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(a) and (d), 133(2)(a) and (i) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2), Article 36(2) of, and paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 1 to, the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3), and now vested in it(4), sections 1(5)(a) and 19(2) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(5) and section 25(2) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to, the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007(6).
Regulations 5 and 6 are made with the consent of the Department of Finance(7).
See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))
1992 c. 7; section 122(1) was amended by Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to that Act
S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); Article 36(2) was amended by paragraph 55 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1997/671)
See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
2007 c. 2 (N.I.); section 25(2) was amended by Article 57(2)(b) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1))
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 and section 1(4) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016