The Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 162) (“the principal Regulations”) in consequence of the transfer under the Tax Credits Act 1999 (c. 10) of functions relating to family credit and disability working allowance from the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland to the Treasury and the Inland Revenue on 5th October 1999. Family credit and disability working allowance are to become known as working families' tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit respectively as from 5th October 1999.

The Regulations also substitute regulations in the principal Regulations relating to the furnishing of information to enable the Board of Inland Revenue to determine whether a decision awarding working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit should be revised under Article 10 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) or superseded under Article 11 of that Order.

Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and effect and regulation 2 for interpretation.

Regulations 3 to 26 amend the principal Regulations and, in particular, regulation 13 substitutes new regulations 17 and 18 of the principal Regulations relating to the furnishing of information to determine whether an award of working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit should be revised or superseded, with provision for suspension or termination of any such award in the event of failure to furnish the required information.