Social Security Pensions Act 1975

71 In Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975—

(a) for paragraph 12(4) there shall be substituted—

“(4) In paragraph 10 of this Schedule as it applies to Northern Ireland—

(a) the first reference in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) to an Order in Council includes a reference to an order made by the Secretary of State ; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b) the words " and any regulations having effect by virtue of section 22(2) of the Family Allowances Act" shall be omitted.”

(b) after paragraph 13(1) there shall be inserted—

“(1A) An order made by the Secretary of State, under an enactment repealed by this Act, for any purpose for which an Order in Council may be made under one of the consolidations shall not be invalidated by the repeal but shall have effect as if it were an Order in Council so made.”

(c) in paragraph 31, there shall be inserted at the end of the Table—

“The words from " by statutory instrument " onwards (in paragraph 30(2)).

The words " by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules Act (Northern Ireland) 1958 ; and any statutory rule containing any such regulations shall be laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly after being made.”