The Tax Credits Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2003 provides for the coming into force of section 1(3)(e) of the Tax Credits Act 2002 and the Tax Credits Act 2002 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2003 provides for the coming into force of section 60 of, and Schedule 6 to, that Act, in so far as they bring into force the repeal of the provisions of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 which are specified in the Schedule to that Order and which relate to the payment of certain increases in respect of children in certain contributory benefits.

Article 2 of this Order saves those repealed provisions, which relate to Northern Ireland, in certain circumstances.

Article 3 makes transitional provision relating to entitlement to widowed mother’s allowance and widowed parent’s allowance for saved cases.

Article 4 makes transitional provision relating to the setting of the rates for those increases that continue to be paid pursuant to the savings provision.

This Order does not impose a charge on business.