The Social Security (Norway) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991

Made: 22nd March 1991

Coming into operation: 1st April 1991

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 134 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975[^f00001] and Article 17 of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following order:

Citation and commencement

1

This order may be cited as the Social Security (Norway) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1991.

Modification of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975

2

The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 shall be modified to such extent as may be required to give effect to the provisions contained in the Convention on Social Security set out in the Schedule to this order, so far as the same relate to Northern Ireland.

Modification of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975

3

Part II of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (child benefit) and any regulations made under it shall be modified to such extent as may be required to give effect to the provisions contained in the Convention on Social Security set out in the Schedule to this order, so far as the same relate to Northern Ireland.

Revocation and variation of orders

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• (1) The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Reciprocal Agreement with Norway) Order (Northern Ireland) 1958[^f00003] is hereby revoked.

• (2) In Part I of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) (Northern Ireland) Order 1976[^f00004], the entry relating to the said Order of 1958 shall be omitted.

• (3) In the Schedule to the Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order (Northern Ireland) 1979[^f00005], the entry relating to the said Order of 1958 shall be omitted.

• (4) In the Schedule to the Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order (Northern Ireland) 1988[^f00006], the entry relating to the said Order of 1958 shall be omitted.

SCHEDULE — CONVENTION ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY

Signed

P. L. Brooke — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — Dated this 22nd day of March 1991.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This order makes provision for the modification of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 and Part II of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 to give effect to the Convention on Social Security made between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway on 19th June 1990 and set out in the Schedule. A Protocol concerning medical treatment forms an integral part of the Convention.

The Convention provides for reciprocity in sickness and maternity benefit, unemployment benefit, invalidity pension, old age pension and survivors' benefit, benefits for industrial injuries and diseases, death grant (under the legislation of Jersey and Norway only), orphan’s benefit, child benefit and attendance benefit.

Rules are set out for employers in one country who send their employees to work temporarily in the other country (including the Continental Shelf Area); they require the employers to request a certificate of continuing liability for contributions from the authorities in the former country and to present this to the authorities in the other country within a specified period in order to prevent liability for contributions arising in the latter country.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1975 c. 15; section 134 was amended by section 20(3) of, and extended by section 20(4) of, the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (c. 5), and further amended by Article 66(2) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1888 (N.I. 18)); subsection (1A) was inserted by Article 7(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1118 (N.I. 25))

[^f00002]: S.I. 1975/1504 (N.I. 16); Article 17 was amended by Article 16 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/610 (N.I. 11)), and Article 66(3) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; paragraph (1A) was inserted by Article 7(2) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

[^f00003]: S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1958 No. 59 (p. 240)

[^f00004]: S.I. 1976/1044, to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of this order

[^f00005]: S.R. 1979 No. 92, to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of this order

[^f00006]: S.R. 1988 No. 120