Part IIIN.I. Non-Contributory Benefits

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. III (ss. 63-79) excluded (13.1.1993) by S.R. 1979/242, reg. 4(1) (as substituted (13.1.1993) by S.R. 1992/557, reg. 3).

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] F3... ;

(d)disability living allowance;

(e)guardian’s allowance;

(f)retirement pensions of the following categories—

(i)Category C, [F4payable in certain cases to a widow whose husband was over pensionable age on 5 July 1948 or to a woman whose marriage to a husband who was over pensionable age on that date was terminated otherwise than by his death] (with increase for adult F5... 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 [F6under this Act] 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F1S. 63(b) repealed (3.11.2000 for specified purposes and 6.4.2001 otherwise) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), art. 76, Sch. 10 Pt.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)

F3Words in s. 63(c) repealed (with effect from 14.8.2010 and with savings until 6.4.2020) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), s. 36(1)(p), Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with ss. 14(2), 34(2)(a))

F5Words in s. 63(f)(i) repealed (6.4.2003) by Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21), s. 61, Sch. 6; S.I. 2003/962, art. 2(3)(e), Sch. 1 (with savings in S.R. 2003/212, art. 2)