Title and commencementN.I.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Mortgage Interest Payments) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 and shall come into operation on the seventh day after the day on which it is made.

InterpretationN.I.

2.—(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954F2 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(2) In this Order “the Department” means the Department of Health and Social Services.

Payment out of benefit of sums in respect of mortgage interest, etc.N.I.

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Financial provisionN.I.

4.  Any sums recovered by the Department under this Order shall be paid—

(a)into the Consolidated Fund, to the extent that the Department estimates that those sums relate to payments out of money appropriated by Measure; and

(b)into the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund, to the extent that the Department estimates that they relate to payments out of that Fund;

and any other sums received by the Department under this Order shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

Supplementary provisionsN.I.

5.—(1) The Department may by regulations make such transitional or consequential provision, and such savings, as it considers necessary or expedient for, or in connection with, the coming into operation of any provision of this Order.

(2) Subsections (1) to (3A) of section 155 of the principal Act (general provisions about regulations and orders) shall apply in relation to the powers to make regulations conferred by paragraph (1) as they apply in relation to any power conferred by that Act to make regulations, but as if for references to that Act there were substituted references to that paragraph.

(3) Regulations under paragraph (1), other than those to which paragraph (4) applies, shall be subject to negative resolution.

(4) This paragraph applies to regulations under paragraph (1) which are contained in a statutory rule which includes any regulations subject to the confirmatory procedure.

(5) Regulations to which paragraph (4) applies shall be subject to the confirmatory procedure.

(6) In this Article—

• “the confirmatory procedure” means the procedure described in section 156(1) of the principal Act;

• “the principal Act” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975F4.

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Schedule—Amendments