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88 The Joint Authority.U.K.

(1)The Joint Authority continued in being by section 177(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992—

(a)shall consist of the Secretary of State, the Northern Ireland Minister having responsibility for social security and the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and

(b)shall continue in being by the name of the Social Security, Child Support and Pensions Joint Authority for the purposes of the legislation to which section 87 applies.

(2)The responsibility of the Joint Authority shall include that of giving effect to arrangements under section 87(2), with power to discharge such functions as may be provided under the arrangements.

(3)The Joint Authority shall also have [F1power—

(a)to require the making by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue of any necessary adjustments between the National Insurance Fund and the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund, and

(b)to make any other necessary financial adjustments.]

(4)The Joint Authority shall continue—

(a)to be a body corporate; and

(b)to have an official seal which shall be officially and judicially noticed;

and the seal of the Authority may be authenticated by any member of, or the secretary to, the Authority, or by any person authorised by the Authority to act on behalf of the secretary.

(5)Any member of the Joint Authority shall be entitled, subject to and in accordance with any rules laid down by the Authority, to appoint a deputy to act for him at meetings of the Authority.

(6)The M1Documentary Evidence Act 1868 shall apply to the Joint Authority as if the Authority were included in the first column of the Schedule to that Act and—

(a)as if any member or the secretary, or any person authorised to act on behalf of the secretary, of the Authority were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule; and

(b)as if the regulations referred to in that Act included any document issued by the Authority.

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F1Words in s. 88(3) substituted (1.4.1999) by 1999 c. 2, s. 2, Sch. 3 para. 65; S.I. 1999/527, art. 2(b), Sch. 2

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