TransitionalN.I.
84.—(1) Regulations may make such transitional and consequential provision (including provision modifying any statutory provision (including this Order)) or saving 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with the coming into operation of any provision of this Order or the operation of any statutory provision which is repealed or amended by a provision of this Order during any period when the repeal or amendment is not wholly in operation.
[F1(1A) Without prejudice to any other powers conferred on it, the Department—
(a)may, for the purpose of making provision with respect to persons falling within paragraph (1B), modify or revoke any regulations made under this Article if the Department considers it necessary or expedient to do so in consequence of, or otherwise in connection with, any statutory provisions or provisions of schemes, arrangements or other instruments coming into operation after the making of this Order; and
(b)may, for the purpose of consolidation, revoke and re‐enact, with any modications which the Department considers necessary or desirable, any regulations under this Article.
(1B) The persons referred to in paragraph (1A)(a) are any persons—
(a)to whom regulations under paragraph (1) apply; or
(b)to whom regulations made under Part III relating to income support applied at any time before the making of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.]
(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), the Lord Chancellor may by regulations make such transitional and consequential provision (including provision modifying any statutory provision (including this Order)) or saving as he considers necessary or expedient in preparation for or in connection with the coming into operation of Article 53 (including Schedule 5) or the operation or any statutory provision which is repealed or amended by a provision of this Order during any period when the repeal or amendment is not wholly in operation.
(3) Regulations made by the Lord Chancellor under paragraph (2) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament in like manner as a statutory instrument and section 5 of the [1946 c. 36] Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply accordingly.