The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978

Modification of the Act in relation to age addition

8.—(1) A person shall not be disqualified for receiving age addition by reason of being absent from Northern Ireland if—

(a)he is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland; or

(b)he was ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland and was entitled to age addition before he ceased to be ordinarily so resident; or

(c)in the case of a person who ceased to be ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland before 20th September 1971, he is entitled to a retirement pension of any category and, by virtue of an order or Order in Council made under section 134 of the Act or an Order in Council made under section 99 of the former principal Act, he is not disqualified for receiving that pension at a higher rate than was applicable in his case when he was last ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland; or

(d)in the case of a person who ceased to be ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland on or after 20th September 1971, he is entitled to a retirement pension of any category, and had he ceased to be ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland before that date, by virtue of an order or Order in Council made under section 134 of the Act or an Order in Council made under section 99 of the former principal Act, he would not have been disqualified for receiving that pension at a higher rate after that date than before it.

(2) Where a person is entitled to a retirement pension of any category at a rate which is calculated by reference to any period completed by that person in some territory outside Northern Ireland, any age addition to which he may be entitled shall be calculated as if it were an increase in that pension.