Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000
PART ICHILD SUPPORT
Maintenance calculations and default and interim maintenance decisions
1Maintenance calculations and terminology
2Applications under Article 7 of the Child Support Order
3Applications by persons claiming or receiving benefit
4Default and interim maintenance decisions
Applications for a variation
5Departure from usual rules for calculating maintenance
Section 6—Amendments
7Variations: revision and supersession
Revision and supersession of decisions
8Revision of decisions
9Decisions superseding earlier decisions
Appeals
10Appeals to appeal tribunals
11Redetermination of appeals
Information
12Information required by the Department
13Information - offences
14Inspectors
Parentage
15Presumption of parentage in child support cases
Disqualification from driving
16Disqualification from driving
Financial penalties
17Financial penalties
18Reduced benefit decisions
Miscellaneous
19Voluntary payments
20Recovery of child support maintenance by deduction from benefit
21Jurisdiction
22Abolition of the child maintenance bonus
23Periodical reviews
24Regulations
Section 25—Amendments
26Temporary compensation payment scheme
27Pilot schemes
28Transitional provisions, savings, etc.
PART IIPENSIONS
CHAPTER ISTATE PENSIONS
State second pension
29Earnings from which pension derived
30Calculation
31Calculation of Category B retirement pension
32Revaluation
33Supplementary
Earnings factors
34Modification of earnings factors
Preservation of rights in respect of additional pensions
35Preservation of rights in respect of additional pensions
Other provisions
36Home responsibilities protection
37Sharing of state scheme rights
38Disclosure of state pension information
CHAPTER IIOCCUPATIONAL AND PERSONAL PENSION SCHEMES
Selection of trustees and of directors of corporate trustees
39Member-nominated trustees
40Corporate trustees
41Employer's proposals for selection of trustees or directors
42Non-compliance in relation to arrangements or proposals
Winding-up of schemes
43Information to be given to the Authority
44Modification of scheme to secure winding-up
45Reports about winding-up
46Directions for facilitating winding-up
Other provisions
47Restriction on index-linking where annuity tied to investments
48Information for members of schemes, etc.
49Jurisdiction of the Pensions Ombudsman
S. 50 rep. by 2005 NI 1
51Prohibition on different rules for overseas residents, etc.
52Miscellaneous amendments and alternative to anti-franking rules
PART IIISOCIAL SECURITY
Loss of benefit
53Loss of benefit for breach of community order
54Loss of joint-claim jobseeker's allowance
55Information provision
56Loss of benefit regulations
57Appeals relating to loss of benefit
Investigation powers
Housing benefit
59Housing benefit: revisions and appeals
60Discretionary financial assistance with housing
61Grants towards cost of discretionary housing payments
62Recovery of housing benefit
Child benefit
63Child benefit disregards
Social Security Advisory Committee
64Social Security Advisory Committee
PART IVMISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL
Miscellaneous
65Tests for determining paternity
66Declarations of status
Supplemental
Section 67—Repeals
68Commencement and transitional provisions
69Short title and interpretation
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 5PENSIONS: MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS AND ALTERNATIVE TO ANTI-FRANKING RULES
PART IMISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS
Guaranteed minimum for widows and widowers
1(1) In section 13 of the Pension Schemes Act (minimum...
Transfer of rights to overseas personal pension schemes
2(1) In section 16(1) of the Pension Schemes Act (transfer...
Protected rights
3(1) Section 24 of the Pension Schemes Act shall be...
Use of cash equivalent for annuity
4In section 91 of the Pension Schemes Act (ways of...
Transfer values where pension in payment
5(1) In section 93(2) of the Pension Schemes Act (calculation...
Information about contracting-out
6For section 152 of the Pension Schemes Act (information as...
Trustees of schemes
7In section 173 of the Pension Schemes Act (managers of...
Para. 8 rep. by 2005 NI 1
Conditions of payment of surplus to employer
9(1) Article 37 of the Pensions Order (payment of surplus...
Duties relating to statements of contributions
10(1) In Article 41 of the Pensions Order (provision of...
Orders and regulations
11In Article 167(3) of the Pensions Order (Assembly, etc. control...
PART IIALTERNATIVE TO ANTI-FRANKING RULES
Cases in which alternative applies
12(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, this...
Alternative rules
13(1) Where this Part applies in the pensioner's case, the...
Relationship between alternative rules and other rules
14(1) Paragraph 13 shall not apply to benefits consisting in...
Supplemental
15(1) In this Part references to rights accruing to a...
SCHEDULE 7HOUSING BENEFIT: REVISIONS AND APPEALS
Introductory
1(1) In this Schedule relevant authority means the Housing Executive...
Decisions on claims for benefit
2Where at any time a claim for housing benefit is...
Revision of decisions
3(1) Any relevant decision may be revised or further revised...
Decisions superseding earlier decisions
4(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the following, namely—
Use of experts by relevant authorities
5Where it appears to a relevant authority that a matter...
Appeal to appeal tribunal
6(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), this paragraph applies to any...
Redetermination, etc. of appeals by tribunal
7(1) This paragraph applies where an application is made to...
Appeal from tribunal to Commissioner
8(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, an appeal...
Appeal from Commissioner on point of law
9(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), an appeal on...
Procedure
10(1) Regulations may make for the purposes of this Schedule...
Finality of decisions
11Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, any decision made...
Matters arising as respects decisions
12Regulations may make provision as respects matters arising—
Suspension in prescribed circumstances
13(1) Regulations may provide for— (a) suspending, in whole or...
Suspension for failure to furnish information, etc.
14(1) The powers conferred by this paragraph are exercisable in...
Termination in cases of a failure to furnish information, etc.
15Regulations may provide that, except in prescribed cases or circumstances,...
Decisions involving issues that arise on appeal in other cases
16(1) This paragraph applies where— (a) a relevant decision, or...
Appeals involving issues that arise on appeal in other cases
17(1) This paragraph applies where— (a) an appeal ( appeal...
Restrictions on entitlement to benefit in certain cases of error
18(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), this paragraph applies where—
Correction of errors and setting aside of decisions
19(1) Regulations may make provision with respect to—
Regulations
20(1) The power to make regulations under this Schedule shall...
Consequential amendment of the Administration Act
21In section 5(1)(hh) of the Administration Act (regulations about claims...
Consequential amendments of the 1998 Order
22(1) In Article 15(12) of the 1998 Order (appeal from...
Interpretation
23(1) In this Schedule— affected shall be construed subject to...

Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000

2000 CHAPTER 4

An Act to amend the law relating to child support; to amend the law relating to occupational and personal pensions; to amend the law relating to social security benefits and social security administration; to amend Part III of the Family Law Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 and Part V of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989; and for connected purposes. C1

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)