(This note is not part of the Order.)
This order makes provision for the modification of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 and Part II of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 to give effect to the Convention on Social Security made between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Barbados on 7th January 1992 and set out in the Schedule. A Protocol concerning health care forms an integral part of the Convention.
The Convention provides for reciprocity in sickness benefit and maternity allowance, maternity grant and death grant (under the legislation of Jersey, Guernsey and Barbados only), invalidity benefit, retirement pension and widow’s benefit, benefits for industrial accidents and industrial diseases, orphan’s benefit and child benefit.