The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 8, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

Appointed day

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below and to articles 3 and 5 of this Order, 5th July 1999 is the day appointed for the coming into force of—

(a) paragraph 105 of Schedule 7 (co-ordination with Northern Ireland), and section 86(1) in so far as it relates to that paragraph; and

(b) the provisions of the Act specified in Schedule 1 to this Order, in so far as those provisions are not already in force, for the purposes of—

(i) guardian’s allowance under Part III of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1),

(ii) benefits under Part V of that Act (benefits for industrial injuries),

(iii) child benefit, and

(iv) any matter to which, by virtue of section 170 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993(2), provisions of Chapter II of Part I of the Act are to apply.

(2) Paragraphs 63 and 102 of Schedule 7 shall come into force immediately before, respectively, paragraphs 4 and 14 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999(3) come into force.

(1)

1992 c. 4.

(2)

1993 c. 48. Section 170 is substituted by paragraph 131 of Schedule 7 to the Act and amended by section 16(2) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2) (“the Transfer Act”).

(3)

1999 c. 2. SeeS.I. 1999/1662 (C.47).