SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1975

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SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1975 - SECT 72



72.(1) Regulations may make provision for any transitional matter connected
with the coming into force of this Order.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), regulations may in
particular

(a)make provision whereby a contribution paid or credited before (or in
respect of a period before) commencement is treated, for the purposes of
entitlement to or the calculation of any benefit, as having been paid or
credited at a specified time or in respect of earnings of a specified amount;

(b)make provision whereby a person who has satisfied any contribution
condition before commencement is treated as having satisfied any contribution
condition having effect by virtue of this Order;

(c)modify any contribution condition in cases where the period in relation to
which it is to be satisfied begins before and ends after commencement;

(d)modify any provision of this Order in relation to persons who have attained
the age of 16 before commencement;

(e)make provision with respect to the operation of Schedule 1 in relation to
persons who have attained pensionable age before commencement but have not
then retired from regular employment;

(f)make provision for effecting orderly transition between Part III of the
National Insurance Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 and Part IV of this Order,
including provision modifying for that purpose any provision of those Parts;

(g)make provision for enabling the Occupational Pensions Board to issue
contracting-out certificates on the basis of such undertakings and information
as may be prescribed;

(h)make provision for the preservation of rights under any provision repealed
or modified by this Order or otherwise for securing continuity between any
such provision and any provision of this Order.

(3) In paragraph (2) "commencement" means the time of the coming into force of
any provision of this Order specified in the regulations in question.

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SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1975 - SECT 72