The Statutory Maternity Pay, Social Security (Maternity Allowance) and Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2006 No. 361

STATUTORY MATERNITY PAY

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The Statutory Maternity Pay, Social Security (Maternity Allowance) and Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made

8th September 2006

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2)

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 35(3)(a)(i) and (c), 161(1), (3), (4) and (7) and 171(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1) and sections 5(1)(m)(2), 71(1)(a) and 165(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(3) and now vested in it(4).

These Regulations are made by virtue of, or consequential upon, the coming into operation of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006(5) or, in the case of regulation 2, by virtue of, or consequential upon, the coming into operation of Article 63 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(6).

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 35 was amended by Article 4 of the Still-Birth (Definition) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (1992/1310 (N.I. 10)), regulation 2(3) of S.R. 1994 No. 176, Article 50(1) and (2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)), paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 10 (N.I.)) and paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)), section 161 was amended by regulation 3 of S.R. 1994 No. 176 and Article 3 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to, the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

(2)

Section 5(1)(m) applies as if statutory maternity pay were a benefit by virtue of section 5(4) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)

(3)

1992 c. 8; section 71(1) was amended by paragraph 32(2) of Schedule 2 to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)), section 165(1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and section 165(3) was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002

(4)

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

(5)

S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)

(6)

S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)