17(1)Regulations may provide that any provision of this Act to which section 150 applies shall have effect subject to such modifications (other than those which may be made by virtue of that section) as the Department may consider necessary or expedient in consequence of Part II of the M1Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or any provision of this Act deriving from that Part.N.I.
(2)Regulations may provide that any provision contained in a statutory provision to which this sub-paragraph applies shall have effect subject to such modifications as the Department, after consultation with the appropriate authority, may consider necessary or expedient in consequence of the provisions mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).
(3)The statutory provisions to which sub-paragraph (2) applies are—
(a)the M2Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951;
(b)the M3County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959;
(c)the M4Resident Magistrates’ Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960;
(d)the M5Lands Tribunal and Compensation Act (Northern Ireland) 1964;
(e)the M6Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969;
(f)the M7Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970;
(g)the M8Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;
(h)section 97(4) of, and paragraphs 5(2), 6 and 7A of, the M9Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975;
(i)the M10Assembly Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;
(j)section 72(2) of, and Schedule 4 to, the M11Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978;
(k)the M12Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984;
(l)the M13Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993.
(4)In this paragraph “the appropriate authority” means such Minister of the Crown or government department as the Secretary of State may by order designate in relation to any provision of a statutory provision to which sub-paragraph (2) applies; and regulations under that sub-paragraph modifying such a provision shall not be made without the consent of the appropriate authority so designated.