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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2006 No. 167

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

  Made 30th March 2006 
  Coming into operation 24th April 2006 

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2A(1) and 165(4) to (6) and (7A) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992[1] and now vested in it[2].

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 24th April 2006.

Amendment of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations
    
2. —(1) The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005[3] shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

    (2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) for the definition of "relevant person" there shall be substituted the following definition—

    (3) For the Schedule there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.



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


30th March 2006.

L.S.


John O'Neill
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development


SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(3)







EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 ("the principal Regulations") to increase the number of persons that can be required to attend work-focused interviews as a condition of their continued entitlement to full benefit. The principal Regulations apply to certain persons who claim incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance, income support on the grounds of incapacity benefit or income support whilst they are appealing a decision which embodies a determination that they are not incapable of work ("specified benefit").

Regulation 2(2) amends the principal Regulations to include persons who reside in certain postcode districts and make a claim to a specified benefit on or after 24th April 2006.

Regulation 2(3) substitutes the Schedule to the principal Regulations to extend the postcode districts to which the principal Regulations apply.

These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.


Notes:

[1] 1992 c. 8; section 2A was inserted by Article 54 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)) and section 165(7A) was inserted by paragraph 58 of Schedule 9 to that Orderback

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

[3] S.R. 2005 No. 414; as amended by S.R. 2005 No. 443back



ISBN 0 337 96470 X


 © Crown copyright 2006

Prepared 7 April 2006


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