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2001 No. 116

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

  Made 16th March 2001 
  Coming into operation 11th April 2001 

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 171(4) of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992[1] and paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992[2], and now vested in it[3], and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, and with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 11th April 2001.

    (2) In these Regulations - 

    (3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[5] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations
     2. In regulation 5(2) of the principal Regulations (lesser incapacity allowances) for "12th April 2000" there shall be substituted "11th April 2001".

Substitution of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations
    
3. For Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (table of rates of lesser incapacity allowance for beneficiaries to whom regulation 5(2) applies and table of loss of earnings and corresponding rates of lesser incapacity allowance) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Transitional provision relating to amount of allowance payable
    
4.  - (1) Paragraph (2) shall apply to a beneficiary who was, before the operative date, in receipt of a lesser incapacity allowance but in respect of whom the final calculation of loss of earnings required by regulation 7(2) of the principal Regulations had not been made by that date.

    (2) In such a case as is referred to in paragraph (1) the beneficiary shall be treated as entitled, from the operative date, to an allowance at the rate to which he would have been entitled had the final calculation been made before the operative date.

Transitional provision relating to claims not made, or made but not determined, before the operative date
    
5.  - (1) Paragraph (2) shall apply to a person whose claim for lesser incapacity allowance - 

    (2) Any lesser incapacity allowance which is found to be payable to a person mentioned in paragraph (1) in respect of a period before the operative date shall be paid at the rate which would have been payable in respect of that period had the amendment to the principal Regulations made by regulation 3 not been made.

Transitional provision relating to revision and appeal
    
6. Where a lesser incapacity allowance has been awarded to a person under the principal Regulations before the operative date and a question arises as to the weekly rate of allowance payable in consequence of these Regulations, the case shall be reconsidered in the light of amendments made by, and transitional provisions contained in, these Regulations and the allowance shall continue to be payable at the weekly rate specified in the award until the question has been determined in accordance with the provisions of the principal Regulations.

Revocation
    
7. The Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000[6] are hereby revoked.



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on


16th March 2001.

L.S.


John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development


The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on


16th March 2001.

L.S.


D. Sterling
Senior Officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel


SCHEDULE
Regulation 3


Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations







EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


These Regulations amend the Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983 by increasing the lower rates of lesser incapacity allowance consequential upon the increase in the maximum rate of that allowance made by the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2001. The Regulations also include transitional provisions and revoke the Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000.

These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.


Notes:

[1] 1992 c. 7; paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 is amended by Article 7 of S.R. 2001 No. 41back

[2] 1992 c. 8; paragraph 1(7) of Schedule 6 was amended by paragraph 90 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10))back

[3] See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481back

[4] S.R. 1983 No. 101; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1990 No. 445 and S.R. 2000 No. 75back

[5] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)back

[6] S.R. 2000 No. 75back



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Prepared 26 March 2001


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