This Order appoints 7th April 2003 as the day for the coming into operation of section 11 of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (in so far as it is not already in operation) in relation to paragraphs 1 to 7, 10 and 12 of Schedule 1 to that Act (amendments to the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8) and to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (N.I. 10) (“the 1998 Order”) which make provision for claims for, and decisions relating to, state pension credit). It also appoints that day for the coming into operation of section 20 of, and Schedule 3 to, that Act in so far as it relates to certain repeals which are consequential on the coming into operation of the amendments to the 1998 Order.
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