The Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000
This Order provides for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999—in so far as it is not already in operation, Article 10 (monitoring of employers' payments to personal pension schemes), on 6th April 2001 (Article 2(1)),in so far as they are not already in operation, Article 56 (couples to make joint claim for allowance) and Schedule 7 (joint claims for jobseeker’s allowance), on 19th March 2001 (Article 2(2)),Article 59 (incapacity benefit: restriction to recent contributors), Article 60 (incapacity benefit: reduction for pension payments), Article 61 (incapacity benefit: persons incapacitated in youth), Article 62 (abolition of severe disablement allowance), paragraphs 20 and 21 (incapacity) and paragraph 25 (abolition of severe disablement allowance) of Schedule 8 (welfare benefits: minor and consequential amendments), and Article 67 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs, and the repeals mentioned in Part IV (abolition of severe disablement allowance) of Schedule 10 (repeals), and Article 76 in so far as it relates to that Part, for the purposes of authorising the making of regulations, on 3rd November 2000 (Article 2(3) and (4)) and for all other purposes on 6th April 2001 (Article 2(3) and (5)), andparagraphs 19 and 24 of Schedule 8 (Assembly, etc. control of regulations and orders) and Article 67, in so far as it relates to those paragraphs, on 3rd November 2000 (Article 2(6)).