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Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 1342 (N.I. 13)

The Social Security(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1989 No. 1342 (N.I. 13)

NORTHERN IRELAND

The Social Security(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Made2nd August 1989
Laid before Parliament22nd August 1989
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1


ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER

Article
Introductory
1. Title, citation and commencement.
2. Interpretation.
Contributions
3. Amendments relating to primary Class 1 contributions.
4. Repayment of contributions where earnings become repayable.
5. Abolition of Consolidated Fund supplement to contributions.
6. Earnings factors.
Liability to maintain children
7. Liability of parents to maintain children under the age of nineteen in respect of whom income support is paid.
Benefits under the principal Act
8. Benefits for women widowed before 11th April 1988.
9. Abolition of earnings rule etc.
10. Mobility allowance: increase of age limit to 80 years.
11. Extension to personal pensions of occupational pension provisions relating to the abatement of unemployment benefit and the meaning of "earnings".
12. Unemployment benefit: requirement to seek employment actively.
13. Requalification for unemployment benefit.
14. Disqualification for unemployment benefit.
Income-related benefits
15. Income support and unemployment.
16. Housing benefit to take the form of payments or reductions.
17. Housing benefit grant.
18. Expenses in making transitional payments relating to income support and housing benefit.
Up-rating
19. Rectification of mistakes in up-rating orders.
20. Effect of alteration in the component rates of income support.
Information and adjudication
21. Unauthorised disclosure of information relating to particular persons.
22. Disclosure of information by Inland Revenue for social security purposes.
23. Miscellaneous amendments relating to adjudication.
Recovery from damages, etc., of sums equivalent to benefit
24. Recovery of sums equivalent to benefit from compensation payments in respect of accidents, injuries and diseases.
Occupational and personal pensions, etc.
25. Equal treatment for men and women.
26. Miscellaneous amendments relating to pensions.
General and supplementary provisions
27. Pre-consolidation amendments.
28. Application to the Crown.
29. Financial provisions.
30. Regulations and orders: general provisions.
31. Minor and consequential amendments, repeals and transitional provisions.

SCHEDULES:

 Schedule 1— Abolition of earnings rule, etc.

 Schedule 2— Persons employed in social security administration or adjudication.

 Schedule 3— Adjudication.

 Schedule 4— Recovery of sums equivalent to benefit from compensation payments in respect of accidents, etc.: supplementary provision.

 Part I— Interpretation.

 Part II— Payments, deductions and certificates.

 Part III— Administration and adjudication.

 Part IV— Miscellaneous.

 Schedule 5— Employment-related schemes for pensions and other benefits: equal treatment for men and women.

 Part I— Compliance by schemes.

 Part II— Amendments of provisions relating to employment.

 Schedule 6— Occupational and personal pensions.

 Schedule 7— Pre-consolidation amendments.

 Schedule 8— Minor and consequential amendments.

 Schedule 9— Repeals.

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