The Pensions Appeal Commissioners (Procedure) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made: 3rd March 2009

Laid before Parliament: 4th March 2009

Coming into operation: 6th April 2009

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 6(A)(6)(c) and (7), 6C(2)(a) and (4), 6D(1) to (3) and (6) and 11A(1) of the Pension Appeal Tribunals Act 1943[^f00001], makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Appeal Commissioners (Procedure) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2009.

Amendment of the Pensions Appeal Commissioners (Procedure) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2005

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• (1) The Pensions Appeal Commissioners (Procedure) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2005[^f00002] are amended as follows.

• (2) In regulation 2(1) omit the definition of “month”.

• (3) In regulation 3(2)(a) for “subject to regulations 7(3) and 11(2)” substitute “subject to regulations 8(3) and 12(2)”.

• (4) In regulation 6(3)(d) for “was” substitute “has”.

• (5) In regulation 9(2) and 11(2) for “copies” substitute “a copy”.

• (6) In regulation 15(2)–

• (a) in sub-paragraph (b) omit the words “in the case of observations on an appeal”; and

• (b) in sub-paragraph (c) omit the words “in any case,”.

• (7) In regulation 25(1) and 26(1) for “regulations 4 and 27” substitute “regulation 4”.

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget Prentice — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — Ministry of Justice — Dated 3rd March 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations make minor technical amendments to the Pensions Appeal Commissioners (Procedure) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2005.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1943 c.39; amended by the Armed Forces (Pension and Compensation) Act 2004 (c.32). Section 6D(1) is modified in its application to Northern Ireland by section 14(b)

[^f00002]: S.I. 2005 No. 965