Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975

Northern IrelandU.K.

31U.K.Paragraphs F1. . . 24, 26, 27, 29 and 30 above (but not paragraph 19, paragraphs 21 to 23, paragraph 25 or 28) apply to Northern Ireland with the substitution for any reference or words specified in column 1 of the following Table of the reference or words specified in relation thereto in column 2.

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A reference to the M1National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 (“the Act of 1946”).A reference to the M2National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1946.
A reference to 26th August 1953A reference to 21st October 1953.
A reference to the M3National Insurance Act 1969.A reference to the M4National Insurance &c. (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969.
A reference to the Secretary of State.A reference to the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland.
A reference to an instrumentA reference to a statutory rule for the purposes of the M5Statutory Rules Act (Northern Ireland) 1958.
The words “order or scheme” where they first occur in paragraph 29.The words “or order”.
The words “order or scheme” in the second and third places where they occur in paragraph 29.The word “order”.
The words from “subject to annulment” onwards (in paragraph 29(2)).The words “laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly after being made”.
The words from “section 167(1)” onwards (in paragraph 29(3)).The words “section 156(1) of the new Act”.
[F2The words from “by statutory instrument” onwards (in paragraph 30(2)).][F2The words “by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules Act (Northern Ireland) 1958; and any statutory rule containing any such regulations shall be laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly after being made.]

32(1)A claim in respect of a period before 10th May 1966 for an allowance under a scheme made under the M6Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1951 or under regulations made under the M7Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1956 may be made, and, when made, shall be determined, and any award thereon in respect of such a period shall be made, as if the M8Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 and the M9Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Northern Ireland Old Cases) Act 1975 had not been passed; and if on any such claim an allowance is awarded, section 5(2) of the said Act of 1975 shall apply as if the claimant had been receiving payment of that allowance immediately before 10th May 1966, whether or not he was in fact doing so.U.K.

(2)Regulations made by the Department under the said Act of 1975 may include provision for the payment or award in respect of any period beginning on or after the appointed day of an allowance under that Act without any further award or, as the case may be, any further claim, in a case where evidence of the satisfaction of the conditions for that allowance is afforded by the awards before that day or under sub-paragraph (1) of an allowance under a scheme or regulation mentioned in that sub-paragraph.

(3)An allowance paid under a scheme or regulation mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) in respect of any period commencing on or after the appointed day shall, except for the purposes of section 5(2) of the said Act of 1975, be treated as paid on account of an allowance under that Act and the amount of any allowance payable under that Act for that period shall be adjusted accordingly.

33U.K.The Department shall continue to have power by regulations to make such transitional or consequential provisions as appear to it to be necessary or expedient having regard to the repeal by section 88 of the M10National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1946 of any enactment in relation to diseases and to injuries not caused by accident, including provisions for modifying or winding up any scheme made under any enactment repealed by that section and for the union of any fund established under any such scheme with any other fund established for comparable purposes.

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35U.K.The repeal by this Act of section 5(2) of the M11National Insurance Measure (Northern Ireland) 1974 (scope of revoking regulations relating to joint arrangements with Great Britain) does not affect the validity of anything which was made valid, or whose validity was continued, by regulations made under that subsection; and—

(a)the Department’s power by regulations to revoke or vary any provision included by virtue of that subsection or this paragraph in other regulations shall continue notwithstanding that repeal, and include power to revoke or vary any provision of regulations having effect by virtue of this paragraph; and

(b)subsection (3) of section 5 of the National Insurance Measure (Northern Ireland) 1974 (regulations to be subject to negative resolution) applies to regulations made by virtue of sub-paragraph (a) above as it does to regulations under subsection (1) of that section.

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