The Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

GeneralN.I.

The CrownN.I.

27.  This Order binds the Crown to the full extent authorised by the constitutional laws of Northern Ireland.

Regulations and ordersN.I.

28.—(1) Regulations or orders made under this Order other than orders made under Article l(2) or regulations made under Article [F113(2A) or] 26(1) shall be subject to negative resolution.

[F2(1A) Regulations under Article 13(2A) must be laid before the Assembly after being made and take effect on such date as may be specified in the regulations, but shall (without prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder or to the making of new regulations) cease to have effect upon the expiration of a period of six months from that date unless at some time before the expiration of that period the regulations are approved by a resolution of the Assembly.]

(2) Regulations under Article 22, under Article 26 amending the list of benefits in column (2) of Schedule 2 or under paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 may not be made without the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel.

(3) Subsections (4), (5), (6) and (10) of section 165 of the Administration Act (regulations and orders – general) apply for the purposes of this Order as they apply for the purposes of that Act.

Financial arrangementsN.I.

29.—(1) There shall be paid out of the National Insurance Fund any expenses of the Department in making payments under Article 16 or 22 to the extent that the Department estimates that those payments relate to sums paid out of that Fund.

(2) Any sums paid to the Department under Article 8 or 16 shall be paid—

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

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

Power to make transitional, consequential etc. provisionsN.I.

30.—(1) Regulations may make such transitional and consequential provisions, and such savings, as the Department considers necessary or expedient in preparation for, in connection with, or in consequence of—

(a)the coming into operation of any provision of this Order, or

(b)the operation of any statutory provision repealed or amended by a provision of this Order during any period when the repeal or amendment is not wholly in operation.

(2) Regulations under this Article may (among other things) provide—

(a)for compensation payments in relation to which, by virtue of Article 4, this Order does not apply to be treated as payments in relation to which this Order applies,

(b)for compensation payments in relation to which, by virtue of Article 4, this Order applies to be treated as payments in relation to which this Order does not apply, and

(c)for the modification of any statutory provision contained in this Order or referred to in paragraph (1)(b) in its application to any compensation payment.

Article 31—Amendments and repeals