The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2018 No. 92

Social Security

The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Made

at 1.30 p.m. on 16th April 2018

Laid before Parliament

at 4.00 p.m. on 16th April 2018

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1A), 103B(2)(ia), 165(1), (4) to (6) and 167(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), Articles 2(2) and 8H(1)(a) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2), Articles 2(2), 11(6) and 74(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(3), and now vested in it(4), section 60(1), (2) and (6) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000(5) and Articles 5, 11(1)(c) and (3), 12(2) and (3), 13(3), 16(3)(a) and (5)(a), 24(2)(d), (3) and (4), 29(1)(a), 36, 38, 42 and 48(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 4(1) and (3)(a) of Schedule 1 and paragraphs 1(1) and 4(1)(a) of Schedule 6 to, the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015(6).

Those powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 4(1)(a) and (b) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.

(1)

1992 c. 8 (N.I.); section 5(1A) was inserted by Article 104(3) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)), section 103B was substituted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)) and amended by section 1(2) to (4) of the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 17 (N.I.)), Article 2 of S.R. 2002 No. 408, paragraph 116 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33) and paragraph 30 of Schedule 12 to the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3336 (N.I 21)), subsection (2)(ia) was inserted by Article 112 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015, section 165(1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and section 18(5) of the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c. 7), section 167(1) is cited for the meaning of “prescribe” and the definition of “prescribe” was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (c. 2).

(2)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); Article 2(2) is cited for the meaning of “prescribed” and Article 8H was inserted by Article 55(4) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.

(3)

S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10); Article 2(2) is cited for the meaning of “prescribed” and Article 74(1) was amended by paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002.

(4)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)).

(5)

2000 c. 4; section 60(1) was amended by paragraph 44 of Schedule 2 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 and section 60(6) is cited for the meaning of “prescribed”.

(6)

S.I. 2015/2006; Article 5 is an interpretation provision and is cited for the meaning of “prescribed”.