Family Allowances and National Insurance Act (Northern Ireland) 1968
1968 Chapter 1
An Act to increase family allowances under the Family Allowances Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 and make related adjustments of certain benefits under the National Insurance Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 or the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1966, to make further provision as to the time at which a person ceases to be a child within the meaning of those Acts, and for purposes connected therewith.
[22nd February 1968]
1. Increase of family allowances and related amendments.
— Subs. (1) ‐ (3) rep. by 1968 c. 16 (NI); subs.(4) rep. by 1975 c. 18; subs.(5) rep. by 1973 c. 38
(6) Schedule 3 shall have effect with respect to the commencement of subsections (2) to (5) and with respect to the transitory matters dealt with in that Schedule.
S. 2 rep. by 1973 c. 38; 1975 c. 18; 1976 NI 9
S. 3 rep. by 1973 c. 38; 1975 NI 16
S. 4 rep. by 1975 c. 18; 1975 NI 16
SCHEDULES
Schedule 1 rep. by 1968 c. 16 (NI); 1973 c. 38
Schedule 2 rep. by 1968 c. 16 (NI); 1975 c. 18
SCHEDULE 3
Section 1(6).
COMMENCEMENT AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS
Para. 1 rep. by 1975 c. 18
Para. 2 rep. by 1975 NI 16
Para. 3 rep. by 1975 c. 18
Set-off of overpayments of benefit
4. Where a beneficiary receives in respect of any persons as being, or as falling to be treated as, children of his family an amount of benefit which by reason of section 1 is not properly payable, but would have been properly payable according to the rates in force at the passing of this Act or at that of the Insurance Act of 1967, and he receives it for a period for which there are payable to him or anyone else in respect of those persons or any of them allowances under the Family Allowances Act at a rate which would not have been payable but for this Act, then the amount of benefit overpaid and not required to be repaid shall be treated as properly paid, but up to that amount any arrears of allowances payable under the Family Allowances Act for that period in respect of those persons shall be withheld.
Para. 5 rep. by 1975 c. 18; 1975 NI 16
Para. 6 rep. by 1975 c. 18
Interpretation
7. In this Schedule “ benefit ”
means benefit under the Insurance Act or the Industrial Injuries Act, and “ beneficiary ”
has a corresponding meaning.