The Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Article 2 of this Order provides for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (“the Order”) as follows—

Article 12(1), (2), (3) and (11) (which provides for rights under tax-approved pension schemes to be excluded from a bankrupt’s estate), and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (income payments orders against pension payments) and Article 17 in so far as it relates to that paragraph, on 29th May 2000,

Article 12(12) (under which a person is treated as having a right under an approved pension arrangement where he is entitled to a pension credit) on 1st December 2000, and

Article 64(3) and (4) (which reduces, for certain categories of case, the lower age limit for entitlement to the higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance from age 5 to age 3) on 9th April 2001.

Article 3 of this Order contains a minor amendment to Part III of the Schedule to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000.