The Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated for Northern Ireland certain enactments relating to social security contributions and benefits.
The enactments consolidated by the act were repealed, in consequence of the consolidation, by the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.
The Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 made equivalent provisions for Great Britain.
Provisions The act is divided into thirteen parts. Part I (sections 1–19) deals with contributions, covering Class 1, 1A, 2, 3 and 4 national insurance contributions. Part II (sections 20–62) covers contributory benefits including unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, invalidity benefits, maternity allowance, benefits for widows and widowers, retirement pensions, and graduated retirement benefit. Part III (sections 63–79) covers non-contributory benefits including attendance allowance, severe disablement allowance, invalid care allowance, disability living allowance, guardian's allowance, and benefits for the aged. Part IV (sections 80–93) provides for increases of benefits for dependants. Part V (sections 94–111) deals with benefit for industrial injuries, including disablement pension and prescribed industrial diseases. Part VI (sections 112–121) contains miscellaneous provisions relating to Parts I to V. Part VII (sections 122–133) covers income-related benefits including income support, family credit, disability working allowance, and housing benefit. Part VIII (sections 134–136) governs the social fund. Part IX (sections 137–143) deals with child benefit. Part X (sections 144–146) provides for the Christmas bonus for pensioners. Part XI (sections 147–159) covers statutory sick pay. Part XII (sections 160–167) covers statutory maternity pay. Part XIII (sections 168–173) contains general provisions including interpretation, subordinate legislation, and the short title, commencement and extent of the act.
The act is accompanied by thirteen schedules dealing with supplementary provisions relating to contributions, the levy of Class 4 contributions with income tax, contribution conditions for entitlement to benefit, rates of benefits, increase of pension where entitlement is deferred, assessment of extent of disablement, industrial injuries benefits, industrial injuries and diseases in old cases, exclusions from entitlement to child benefit, priority between persons entitled to child benefit, circumstances in which periods of entitlement to statutory sick pay do not arise, and the relationship of statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay with benefits and other payments.
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