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PENSIONS Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2004. 2 In this Order “relevant period” has the same meaning as in section 109(3A) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 . 3 The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Assembly. Increase of guaranteed minimum pensions 2 For the purposes of section 105(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 the percentage by which there is to be an increase in the rate of that part of any guaranteed minimum pension which is attributable to earnings factors for the tax years in the relevant period shall be 2·8 per cent. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 4th March 2004. John O'Neill Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development
PHARMACY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 10th May 2004. 2 In this Order “the principal Order ” means the Pharmacy (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 . Amendments to the principal Order 2 In Article 5(1) of the principal Order (Regulations) – a in sub-paragraph (e) for “and for retention of registration,” substitute “for retention of registration and for annotation of the register,”. b after sub-paragraph (f) insert the following sub-paragraph – ff annotation of the register of pharmaceutical chemists to indicate particular qualifications, specialist areas of practice and status; 3 In Article 8 of the principal Order (Qualifications for registration), after paragraph (4) add the following paragraph – 5 Where a person – a gives to the registrar such reasonable proof as may be prescribed that he satisfies the prescribed requirements for a particular annotation to be recorded against his name in the register of pharmaceutical chemists in accordance with regulations under Article 5(1)(ff); and b pays the prescribed fee to the Society, he shall be entitled to have that annotation recorded against his name in that register. 4 In Article 14 of the principal Order (Issue of certificates of registration and penalties for failure to surrender, or abuse of, certificates), after paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph – 2B Any certificate of registration issued to any person under this Article shall reproduce any annotation entered in the register against that person’s name in pursuance of Article 8(5). Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 3rd March 2004. D. C. Gowdy Permanent Secretary, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 17th May 2004. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 . Amendment to the principal regulations 3 In regulation 7(3) of the principal regulations for the words “a man and a woman who are living with each other in the same household as husband and wife” there shall be substituted “the person concerned and anyone with whom the person concerned normally resides as a couple, including a person of the same sex,”. Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor Lord Filkin Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs Dated 24th March 2004 We approve John Heppell Jim Murphy Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury Dated 1st April 2004
FISHERIES Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2003 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PUBLIC HEALTH Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 31st March 2004. Amount of fixed penalty 2 For the amount of £25 specified as the amount of the fixed penalty in Article 6(6) of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 there shall be substituted the amount of £50. Revocation 3 The Litter (Fixed Penalty) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 is hereby revoked. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 1st March 2004. Judena Goldring A senior officer of the Department of the Environment
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of Schedule 3 to the Income Support Regulations 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocation and saving 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FAIR EMPLOYMENT Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Establishment of Fair Employment Tribunal for Northern Ireland 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition of the Tribunal 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Proceedings of the Tribunal 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Overriding objective 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Register 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Proof of decision of the Tribunal 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transitional provision 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocations 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ELECTRICITY Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Energy (2003 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004. Appointed Day 2 2nd March 2004 is the day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 listed in column 1 of the Schedule for the purposes set out in column 3 thereof. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 1st March 2004. Michael A. Warnock A senior officer of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
AGRICULTURE Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Seed Potatoes Marketing Board Assets (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 29th March 2004. Revocation 2 The Seed Potato Marketing Board Assets Order (Northern Ireland) 1985 is hereby revoked. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 27th February 2004. David Small A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increase of Limit 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocation 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges and Optical Charges and Payments and General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2004. 2 In these Regulations – “the Travelling Expenses Regulations ” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 ; “the Optical Regulations ” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 ; “the Ophthalmic Regulations ” means the Health and Personal Social Services (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 ; and “the Charges Regulations ” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 . Amendment of regulation 5 of the Travelling Expenses Regulations 2 In regulation 5(2)(d) of the Travelling Expenses Regulations (entitlement to full remission and payment) for “requirements equal or exceed his income resources” there is substituted “income resources do not exceed his requirements or exceed his requirements by fifty per cent or less of the amount of the charge specified in regulation 3(1)(b) (supply of drugs and appliances by chemists) of the Charges Regulations”. Amendment of the Optical Regulations and the Ophthalmic Regulations 3 1 In regulation 8(3)(e) of the Optical Regulations (eligibility – supply of optical appliances) after “requirements as so calculated” there is inserted “or exceed his requirements as so calculated by fifty per cent or less of the amount of the charge specified in regulation 3(1)(b) (supply of drugs and appliances by chemists) of the Charges Regulations”. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 2nd April 2004. Dr. J. F. Livingstone Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 2nd April 2004. Michael Brennan Senior Officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
AGRICULTURE Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Seed Potatoes (Levy) Order (Northern Ireland) 1985 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exceptions relating to payment of additional benefit under awards made before the commencing date 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Persons not ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocations 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HOUSING Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2004. Specified tenancy 2 1 For the purposes of Article 29A(2)(c) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (scheme for emergency grants), the following are descriptions of tenancies to which Article 29A applies: a an introductory tenancy within the meaning of Article 6 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 ; and b a private tenancy, other than a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy. 2 In this Article, “private tenancy” means any tenancy except:— a a tenancy under which the estate of the landlord belongs to:— i the Crown (whether in right of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or in Northern Ireland); ii a government department; iii the Executive; iv a registered housing association; or is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department. b a tenancy the purpose of which is to confer on the tenant the right to occupy a dwelling house for a holiday. Application 3 This Order shall not apply in relation to applications for emergency grant made before 1st April 2004. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 23rd February 2004. D. M. Crothers A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
FOOD Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Application 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the principal Regulations 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Citation and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (Description of persons to be treated as social care workers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2004. 2 In these Regulations “ the Act ” means the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001. Description of persons to be treated as social care workers 2 For the purposes of section 2(3) of the Act (“Social care worker”, etc. ), a person participating in a course approved by the Council under section 10 of the Act for persons wishing to become social workers, shall be treated as a social care worker. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 23rd February 2004. Paul Martin A Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Citation and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (Description of social care workers) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2004. 2 In this Order – a “ the Act ” means the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001; and b “student social care worker” means a person participating in a course approved by the Council under section 10 of the Act for persons wishing to become social workers. Description of social care workers 2 A person who is a student social care worker is hereby specified as a description of social care worker for the purposes of section 3(1)(b) of the Act. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 23rd February 2004. Paul Martin Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
DISABLED PERSONS Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Code of Practice (Goods, Facilities, Services and Premises) (Appointed Day) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004. Code of Practice 2 The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Code of Practice on the Rights of Access to Goods, Facilities, Services and Premises issued by the Commission under section 54A (1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 on 14th August 2003 shall come into effect on 1st March 2004. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 18th February 2004. P. McAuley A Senior Officer of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 27th March 2004. 2 In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 . Amendment to regulation 2 (interpretation) 2 In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations, sub-paragraph (j) of paragraph (i) of the definition of “overall length” shall be omitted. Amendment to regulation 6 (length) 3 In regulation 6 of the principal Regulations, in the Table – a in item 3, column (3), for “18” there shall be substituted “18.75”; b in item 7, column (2), the words “other than a bus” shall be added after the word “vehicle”; and c items 3A, 7A and 7B shall be inserted at the appropriate place together with the description of the class of vehicle and maximum length specified in the table below. TABLE (1) (2) (3) Item Class of vehicle Maximum Length (metres) Vehicle Combinations 3A A bus drawing a trailer 18.75 Motor vehicles 7A A bus with two axles 13.5 7B A bus with more than two axles 15 Amendment to regulation 15 (turning circle-buses) 4 In paragraph (4) of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations, for the words from “if it is a rigid vehicle” to the end, there shall be substituted – if it is a rigid vehicle of 12m or less in overall length or 1.2m if it is a rigid bus of over 12m in overall length or an articulated bus. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 13th February 2004. Wesley Shannon A senior officer of the Department of the Environment
LOCAL GOVERNMENT Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Constitution of a joint committee as a body corporate 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Functions of Arc 21 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HOUSING; RATES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
LANDLORD AND TENANT Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Registered Rents (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, and shall come into operation on 8th March 2004. Increase of registered rents 2 The rents registered under Part V of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 for dwelling houses which are let under regulated tenancies shall be increased by 3 percent. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 9th February 2004. D. M. Crothers A Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development
FOOD Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Requests relating to novel foods and novel food ingredients 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enforcement 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Offences and penalties 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Application of various provisions of the Order 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Application of Articles 33 and 34 of the Order 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EMPLOYMENT Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2004. 2 In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations ” means the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 . Amendments to the Principal Regulations 2 The Principal Regulations shall be amended as provided in regulations 3 and 4. 3 Omit paragraph (3)(b) of regulation 17 (Notice and evidential requirements for ordinary adoption leave). 4 In paragraph (b) of regulation 27(1) (Incidents of the right to return from adoption leave) omit “as to remuneration”. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 15th March 2004. R. B. Gamble A senior officer of the Department for Employment and Learning
PENSIONS Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Civilian Direct Recruits to the Police Service of Northern Ireland) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 8th March 2004. Addition to list of employments 2 There shall be added to the employments listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 with effect from 30th September 2002 employment by the Police Service of Northern Ireland as a civilian direct recruit. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 2nd February 2004. Michael Daly A Senior Officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
POLICE 1 This Order may be cited as the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Renewal of Temporary Provisions) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 29th March 2004. 2 The “temporary provisions” of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, as defined in section 47(1) of that Act, which are in force on 29th March 2004 shall continue in force for the period beginning 30th March 2004 and ending 28th March 2007. Paul Murphy One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Northern Ireland Office 11th March 2004
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 14th April 2004. Increase of earnings limits in respect of dependent children 2 In paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 – a in head (a) for “£160” there shall be substituted “£165”; and b in head (b) for “£20” and “£160” there shall be substituted “£21” and “£165” respectively. Revocations 3 The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 are hereby revoked. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 4th March 2004. John O'Neill Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development
PENSIONS Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Limited) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 8th March 2004. Addition to list of employments 2 There shall be added to the employments listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 with effect from 23rd June 2003 employment in the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Limited. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 2nd February 2004. Michael Daly A Senior Officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel