The Social Security Pensions (Low Earnings Threshold) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2005 No. 34

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security Pensions (Low Earnings Threshold) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

10th February 2005

Coming into operation

6th April 2005

Whereas the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made an Order(1) under section 148A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(2):

Now, therefore, the Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 130A of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(3) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Social Security Pensions (Low Earnings Threshold) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2005.

Low earnings threshold

2.  It is hereby directed that, for the purposes of the Contributions and Benefits Act, the low earnings threshold(4) for the tax years following the tax year 2004-2005 shall be £12,100.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 10th February 2005.

L.S.

John O'Neill

A senior officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order, which corresponds to an Order (S.I. 2005/217) made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under section 148A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, directs that the low earnings threshold, for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, for the tax years following 2004-2005 shall be £12,100. The low earnings threshold is used for the purposes of calculating entitlement to the additional pension (the state second pension) in a state retirement pension.

This Order does not impose a charge on business.

(1)

S.I. 2005/217

(2)

1992 c. 5; section 148A was inserted by section 33(1) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)

(3)

1992 c. 8; section 130A was inserted by section 32 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)). See also Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(4)

See section 44A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7); section 44A was inserted by section 29(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 and amended by paragraph 30 of Schedule 1 to the National Insurance Contributions Act 2002 (c. 19) subject to section 8(2) of that Act and by Article 2(2)(a)(i) of S.R. 2002 No.321; see also Article 2 of S.R. 2004 No. 80