The Social Security and Child Support (Tax Credits Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
These Regulations are made in consequence of provisions in the Tax Credits Act 1999 (“the Act”) which transfer functions relating to family credit and disability working allowance from the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland to the Treasury and the Inland Revenue on 5th October 1999. The Act also makes provision for the renaming of family credit and disability working allowance as working families' tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit respectively from 5th October 1999.