1996 No. 75
SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 8th April 1996.

Increase of earnings limits in respect of dependent children2.

In paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19922—

(a)

in head (a) for “£125” there shall be substituted “£130”; and

(b)

in head (b) for “£16” and “£125” there shall be substituted “£17” and “£130” respectively.

Revocations3.

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 19933 and the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 19954 are hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on.

W. G. Purdy
Assistant Secretary
(This note is not part of the Order.)

Where a disablement pension with unemployability supplement is increased in respect of a child and the beneficiary is one of two persons who are spouses residing together or an unmarried couple, paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 provides that an increase shall not be payable in respect of the first child if the other person’s earnings are £125 a week or more and in respect of a further child for each complete £16 where the earnings exceed £125. This Order substitutes the amount of £130 for the amount of £125 and the amount of £17 for the amount of £16.

Article 3 contains revocations consequential upon the coming into operation of this Order.