The Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992

Financial provision

5.—(1) The Department may by regulations make such transitional or consequential provision, and such savings, as it considers necessary or expedient for, or in connection with, the coming into operation of any provision of this Order.

(2) Subsections (1) to (3A) of section 155 of the principal Act (general provisions about regulations and orders) shall apply in relation to the powers to make regulations conferred by paragraph (1) as they apply 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 that paragraph.

(3) Regulations under paragraph (1), other than those to which paragraph (4) applies, shall be subject to negative resolution.

(4) This paragraph applies to regulations under paragraph (1) which are contained in a statutory rule which includes any regulations subject to the confirmatory procedure.

(5) Regulations to which paragraph (4) applies shall be subject to the confirmatory procedure.

(6) In this Article—

“the confirmatory procedure” means the procedure described in section 156(1) of the principal Act;

“the principal Act” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975(1).

(1)

1975 c. 15