The Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999

Orders and regulations

23.—(1) Any power of the Department to make an order or regulations under this Order shall be exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979(1).

(2) Section 166(4) of the Administration Act shall apply in relation to any power conferred on the Department to make regulations under this Order as it applies in relation to any power conferred by that Act to make regulations, but as if for references to that Act there were substituted references to this Order.

(3) Any power of the Secretary of State or the Board to make an order or regulations under this Order shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

(4) Any statutory instrument containing regulations under any provision of this Order, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(5) Any power conferred by this Order to make regulations may be exercised—

(a) either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of case;

(b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised—

(i) the full provision to which the power extends or any less provision (whether by way of exception or otherwise);

(ii) the same provision for all cases in relation to which the power is exercised, or different provision for different cases or different classes of case or different provision as respects the same case or class of case for different purposes of this Order;

(iii) any such provision either unconditionally or subject to any specified condition;

and where such a power is expressed to be exercisable for alternative purposes it may be exercised in relation to the same case for any or all of those purposes.

(6) Powers to make regulations for the purposes of any one provision of this Order are without prejudice to powers to make regulations for the purposes of any other provision.

(7) A power conferred by this Order to make regulations includes power to make thereby such incidental, supplementary, consequential or transitional provision as appears to the authority making the regulations to be expedient for the purposes of those regulations.

(8) A power conferred by this Order to make regulations includes power to provide for a person to exercise a discretion in dealing with any matter.

(1)

S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12).