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2002 No. 107

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

  Made 14th March 2002 
  Coming into operation 8th April 2002 

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 171(1) of, and paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 7 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992[1], and now vested in it[2], and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 8th April 2002.

Increase of earnings limits in respect of dependent children
    
2. In paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992[3] for "£150" in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted "£155".

Revocation
     3. Article 2(a) of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001[4] is hereby revoked.



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


14th March 2002.

L.S.


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


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)


Where a disablement pension with unemployability supplement is increased in respect of a child or children, and the beneficiary is one of two persons who are spouses residing together or an unmarried couple, paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 provides that the increase shall not be payable in respect of the first child if the other person's earnings are £150 a week or more and in respect of a further child for each complete £20 by which the earnings exceed £150. This Order substitutes the amount of £155 for the amount of £150. The amount of £20 is unchanged.

Article 3 contains a revocation consequential upon the coming into operation of this Order.

This Order does not impose a charge on business.


Notes:

[1] 1992 c. 7back

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

[3] Paragraph 4(4) was amended by Article 2 of S.R. 2001 No. 107back

[4] S.R. 2001 No. 107back



ISBN 0 37794213 7


  © Crown copyright 2002

Prepared 25 March 2002


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