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(1)The National Insurance Fund shall continue to be maintained under the control and management of the Department.
(2)Accounts of the National Insurance Fund shall be prepared in such form, and in such manner and at such times, as the Department of Finance may direct, and the Comptroller and Auditor-General for Northern Ireland shall examine and certify every such account and lay copies thereof, together with his report thereon, before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(3)Any money in the National Insurance Fund may from time to time be paid over to the Department of Finance and by that Department invested in any such manner as may be specified by an order of the Treasury for the time being in force under section 22(1) of the [1971 c. 29.] National Savings Bank Act 1971.
(4)The Department of Finance shall certify a statement of the securities in which money forming part of the National Insurance Fund is for the time being invested and that statement so certified shall be included with the accounts of that Fund laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly under subsection (2).
(5)There shall be made out of the National Insurance Fund into the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland, or out of money hereafter appropriated for that purpose into the National Insurance Fund, such payments by way of adjustment as the Department determines (in accordance with any directions of the Department of Finance) to be appropriated in consequence of the operation of any enactment or regulations relating to the repayment or offsetting of benefit or other payments.
(6)Where in other circumstances payments fall to be made by way of adjustment—
(a)out of the National Insurance Fund either to the Department or another government department, or into the Reserve Pension Fund or the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland; or
(b)into the National Insurance Fund out of the Reserve Pension Fund or out of money hereafter appropriated for that purpose,
then, in such cases or classes of case as may be specified by the Department by order made with the consent of the Department of Finance the amount of the payments to be made shall be taken to be such, and payments on account thereof shall be made at such times and in such manner, as may be determined by the Department in accordance with any directions given by the Department of Finance.
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