C1Part VI Miscellaneous Provisions relating to Part I to V

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Special cases

117 Mariners, airmen, etc.

1

F1The Treasury may with the concurrence of the Department make regulations modifying provisions of Parts I to V and this Part of this Act F2and Part III of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and any F3provisions of Chapter II of Part II of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 which correspond to provisions of Part III of the 1975 Act, in such manner as F4the Treasury think proper, in their application to persons who are or have been, or are to be, employed on board any ship, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft.

2

Regulations under subsection (1) above may in particular provide—

a

for any such provision to apply to such persons, notwithstanding that it would not otherwise apply;

b

for excepting such persons from the application of any such provision where they neither are domiciled nor have a place of residence in Northern Ireland;

c

for requiring the payment of secondary Class 1 contributions in respect of such persons, whether or not they are (within the meaning of Part I of this Act) employed earners;

d

for the taking of evidence, for the purposes of any claim to benefit, in a country or territory other than Northern Ireland, by a British consular official or such other person as may be prescribed;

e

for enabling persons who are or have been so employed to authorise the payment of the whole or any part of any benefit to which they are or may become entitled to such of their dependants as may be prescribed.