Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2002

Amendment of the Deregulation and Contracting Out (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

7.—(1) Article 17 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 11) (social security: amendments following certain orders) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for “Chapter I of Part I or Part II of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994” there is substituted “Part II of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 or section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001”.

(3) In paragraph (2), after “the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999” there is inserted—

“the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000;

the Social Security Fraud Act 2001.”.

(4) For paragraph (4) there is substituted—

“(4) An order under this Article shall be laid before the Assembly after being made and shall take effect on such date as may be specified in the order, but shall (without prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder or to the making of a new order) cease to have effect upon the expiration of a period of six months from that date unless at some time before the expiration of that period the order has been approved by a resolution of the Assembly.”.