Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 195

HOUSING; RATES; SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

24th March 2003

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 22(5), 122(1)(a) and (d), 123(1)(e), 131(1), 132(1), (3) and (4), 134(1)(a), (2) and (4) and 171(1) and (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), sections 1(1C) and 165(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2) and Articles 6(5), 14, 15(2) and 36(2) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3), and now vested in it(4), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel(5) in so far as regulation 4 and Schedule 3 is concerned, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of that regulation and that Schedule should not be referred to it(6), hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 123(1)(c) was inserted by paragraph 13(5) of Schedule 2 to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15))

(2)

1992 c. 8; section 1(1C) was inserted by Article 18 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11))

(3)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)

(4)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(5)

See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(6)

See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)