Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2001 No. 150

HOUSING; RATES; SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Capital Disregards and Recovery of Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made

3rd April 2001

Coming into operation

12th April 2001

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 122(1)(a) and (d), 132(4)(b), 134(1)(a) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), section 165(4) to (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2), Article 14(4)(b) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3) and Article 28(1) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(4) and now vested in it(5), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel(6) in so far as regulation 2(2) is concerned, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of that regulation should not be referred to it(7), hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 134(1) was substituted by Article 66(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10))

(2)

1992 c. 8; words in section 165(6) were repealed by Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

(3)

S.I. 1995 No. 2705 (N.I. 15)

(4)

S.I. 1997/1183 (N.I. 12); section 165(4) to (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 is applied by Article 28(3) of this Order

(5)

See Article 8(b) of, and Part II of Schedule 6 to, the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481)

(6)

See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); consent function transferred from the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland to the Department of Finance and Personnel; see Article 6(b) of, and Part II of Schedule 4 to, the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

(7)

See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992