Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland)

Supplementary

33.—(1) The Contributions and Benefits Act shall be amended as follows.

(2) In section 21(5A)(b) (contribution conditions)—

(a)after “22(1)(a)” there shall be inserted “, (2A)”; and

(b)for “44(6)(a)” there shall be substituted “44(6)(za) and (a)”.

(3) In section 39 (rate of widowed mother’s allowance and widow’s pension), in subsections (1), (2) and (3), after “sections 44 to 45B below” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(4) In section 39C (rate of widowed parent’s allowance and bereavement allowance)—

(a)in subsections (1) and (4), after “sections 44 to 45A below” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”; and

(b)in subsection (3), after “45A” there shall be inserted “below and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(5) In section 44 (Category A retirement pension), in subsection (5A), after “section 45 below” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(6) In that subsection, for the words from “that year,” to “surplus” there shall be substituted

“that year,

(b)the amount of the surplus is the amount of that excess, and

(c)for the purposes of section 45(1) and (2)(a) and (b) below, the adjusted amount of the surplus”.

(7) In subsection (6) of that section, after “section 45 below” there shall be inserted “or Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(8) In section 45 (the additional pension in a Category A retirement pension)—

(a)in subsections (1) and (2)(a) and (b), before “amount” there shall be inserted “adjusted”; and

(b)in subsection (6), for “the amount of any surpluses” there shall be substituted “any amount”.

(9) In section 48A(4) (Category B retirement pension for married person), after “sections 44 to 45B above” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(10) In section 48B (Category B retirement pension for widows and widowers), in subsections (2) and (3), after “sections 44 to 45B above” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(11) In section 48BB (Category B retirement pension: entitlement by reference to benefits under section 39A or 39B), in subsections (5) and (6), after “sections 44 to 45A above” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(12) In section 48C(4) (Category B retirement pension: general), after “sections 44 to 45B above” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(13) In section 51 (Category B retirement pension for widowers), in subsections (2) and (3), after “sections 44 to 45A above” there shall be inserted “and Schedule 4A to this Act”.

(14) In section 121(1) (interpretation of Parts I to VI and supplementary provisions), after the definition of “entitled” there shall be inserted—

““first appointed year” means such tax year, no earlier than 2002-03, as may be appointed by order, and “second appointed year” means such subsequent tax year as may be so appointed;”.

(15) In section 172 (Assembly, etc. control of regulations and orders)—

(a)in subsection (4), for “subsection (7)” there shall be substituted “subsections (4A) and (7)”; and

(b)after subsection (4) there shall be inserted—

“(4A) Subsection (4) above does not apply to a statutory rule which contains an order appointing the first or second appointed year (within the meaning of section 121(1) above).”.