SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977

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SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 - SECT 19



19.(1) [Regulations may] make provision for carrying into effect this Part and
Schedule 1 [; and nothing in any other provision of this Order shall be
construed as prejudicing the generality of this paragraph].

(2) [Regulations may make provision]

(a)for requiring claims for supplementary benefit to be made in such manner
[and within such time] as may be specified in the regulations;

[(b)for enabling a person to be appointed to exercise, on behalf of a claimant
who may be or become unable to act in relation to his claim, any power in
relation to it which the claimant is entitled to exercise;]

(c)for prescribing the evidence which is to be provided in support of claims
for supplementary benefit;

(d)for requiring or enabling [a benefit officer], in such circumstances as may
be specified in the regulations, to review any determination with respect to
supplementary benefit, whether the determination is made by [a benefit
officer] or by the Appeal Tribunal [or by a ... Commissioner or Tribunal of
Commissioners by virtue of rules under Article 20A];

(e)for extinguishing the right to payment of any sum by way of supplementary
benefit if payment is not obtained within [a prescribed period of not] less
than twelve months from the date on which the right is to be treated under the
regulations as having arisen; ...

<[(f)as to the day on which entitlement to a supplementary pension or allowance is to begin or end or the amount of a supplementary pension or allowance is to change;


(g)as to the time and manner of paying supplementary benefit and the
information and evidence to be furnished in connection with payments of it;

(h)for withholding payments of a supplementary pension or allowance in
prescribed circumstances and for subsequently making withheld payments in
prescribed circumstances;

(i)as to the circumstances and manner in which payments of supplementary
benefit may be made to another person on behalf of the beneficiary for any
purpose (which may be to discharge, in whole or in part, an obligation of the
beneficiary or any other person);

(j)for the payment or distribution of supplementary benefit to or among
persons claiming to be entitled to it on the death of any person and for
dispensing with strict proof of their title; and

(k)for the payment of travelling expenses in connection with claims for
supplementary benefit.]

Paras.(3)(4) rep. by 1980 NI 8 art.16 sch.4 Pt.II

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SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1977 - SECT 19