Statutory Instruments
Social Security
Made
11th October 2010
Laid before Parliament
15th October 2010
Coming into force
14th November 2010
The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9, 11, 13 and 25(3) of the Social Security (Transfer of Functions, etc) Act 1999(1), and Articles 8, 10, 12 and 23(5) of the Social Security (Transfer of Functions, etc) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(2) and now vested in them(3).
The Lord Chancellor concurs in the making of these Regulations in relation to the exercise of the powers in section 13 of the Social Security (Transfer of Functions, etc) Act 1999 and Article 12 of the Social Security (Transfer of Functions, etc) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.
The Scottish Ministers(4) concur in the making of these Regulations in relation to the exercise of the powers in section 13 of the Social Security (Transfer of Functions, etc) Act 1999.
1999 c.2. Section 11 was amended by the Employment Act 2002 (c.22) sections 9(1) and (4), the Work and Families Act 2006 (c.18) Schedule 1, paragraph 47 and by S.I. 2009/56. Section 13 was amended by S.I. 1999/678, 2009/56 and S.I. 2009/777.
S.I. 1999/671. Article 10 was amended by S.I. 2002/2836, 2006/1947 and 2009/56. Article 12 was amended by S.I. 2009/56 and 2009/777.
The functions of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5(2) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c.11). Section 50(1) of that Act provides that a reference to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, however expressed, shall be taken as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
The functions of the Lord Advocate under section 13(1) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999, were transferred to the Secretary of State by Article 2(1) of, and the Schedule to, the Transfer of Functions (Lord Advocate and Secretary of State) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/678). Those functions were then treated as being exercisable in or as regards Scotland, for the purposes of section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), by Article 3 of, and paragraph 22 of Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Functions Exercisable in or as Regards Scotland) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/1748), and were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by Article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/1750).