The Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) (Provision of Information and Administrative Expenses etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made: 8th May 1997

Coming into operation: 16th June 1997

The Department of Health and Social Services, being the Northern Ireland Department designated for the purposes of Article 164(3)(b) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995[^f00001] in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 164 and 166(3) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) (Provision of Information and Administrative Expenses etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 16th June 1997.

Amendment

2

In the Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) (Provision of Information and Administrative Expenses etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997[^f00002] in regulation 4 (Provision of information in prescribed circumstances)—

• (a) after the words “the individual in respect of whom the information relates” there shall be inserted the words “or of any person acting in respect of that individual—”; and

• (b) for the word “him” in paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “the prescribed person”.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on

B. McGahan — Assistant Secretary — 8th May 1997.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations are made under Articles 164 and 166(3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and amend the Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) (Provision of Information and Administrative Expenses etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. 1997 No. 101), (“the Provision of Information Regulations”).

Regulation 1 provides for the citation and commencement of the Regulations.

Regulation 2 makes minor amendments to regulation 4 of the Provision of Information Regulations, which prescribes the circumstances in which the Department may provide information to a prescribed person for the purposes of Article 164(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)

[^f00002]: S.R. 1997 No. 101