Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

63 Descriptions of non-contributory benefits.N.I.

Non-contributory benefits under this Part of this Act are of the following descriptions, namely—

(a)attendance allowance;

F1(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)[F2carer’s allowance](with increase for adult and child dependants);

(d)disability living allowance;

(e)guardian’s allowance;

(f)retirement pensions of the following categories—

(i)Category C, payable to certain persons who were over pensionable age on 5th July 1948 and their wives and widows (with increase for adult and child dependants), and

(ii)Category D, payable to persons over the age of 80;

(g)age addition payable, in the case of persons over the age of 80, by way of increase of a retirement pension of any category or of a pension or allowance to which section 79(2) below applies.

Textual Amendments

F1S. 63(b) repealed (3.11.2000 for specified purposes and 6.4.2001 otherwise) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), art. 76, Sch. 10 Pt. IV; S.R. 2000/332, art. 2(3)(g)(4)(5)

F2Words in s. 63(c) substituted (21.10.2002 for certain purposes and 1.4.2003 otherwise) by The Deregulation (Carer's Allowance) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/321), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)