Statutory Instruments
2009 No. 459
Pensions, Northern Ireland
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( 1 ), makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. 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
2. —(1)The Pensions Appeal Commissioners (Procedure) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2005( 2 ) 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 by the authority of the Lord Chancellor
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
Dated 3rd March 2009
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)