The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1988

General and supplementary

Financial provision

15.  There shall be paid out of the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund into the Consolidated Fund, at such times and in such manner as the Department of Finance and Personnel may direct, such sums as the Department may estimate (in accordance with any directions given by the Department of Finance and Personnel) to be the amount of the administrative expenses incurred by the Department under Articles 4, 7, 8, 10 and 11, excluding any category of expenses which the Department of Finance and Personnel may direct, or any statutory provision may require, to be excluded from the Department’s estimate under this Article.

Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

16.—(1) The statutory provisions mentioned in Schedule 4 shall have effect with the amendments there specified.

(2) The statutory provisions mentioned in Schedule 5 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

Transitional and consequential provisions and savings

17.—(1) The Department may by regulations subject to negative resolution make—

(a) such transitional provision;

(b) such consequential provision; or

(c) such savings,

as the Department considers necessary or expedient in preparation for or in connection with the coming into operation of any provision of this Order or the operation of any statutory provision which is repealed or amended by a provision of this Order during any period when the repeal or amendment is not wholly in operation.

(2) Regulations under paragraph (1) may make modifications of any statutory provision (including this Order); and in this paragraph “modifications” includes additions, omissions and amendments.

(3) Section 155(1) to (3A) of the principal Act shall apply to the power to make regulations conferred by paragraph (1) as they apply to any power to make regulations conferred by that Act but as if for references to that Act there were substituted references to that paragraph.