
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the 
Transfer of Functions (Social Security Commissioners) Order 1984.

(2) In this Order 
“the Commissioners” means 
the Social Security Commissioners.
(3) This Order comes into operation on 1st
January 1985.
2 
The following functions of the Secretary of State are transferred
to the Lord Chancellor—
(a) the functions of the Secretary of State
under paragraph 4 of Schedule
10 to the Social Security Act 1975
 (payment of remuneration and expenses of the
Commissioners) and section
13 of the Judicial Pensions Act 1981
 (pensions of the Commissioners);
(b) the administration of the offices of
the Commissioners in England and Wales, including the functions of the Secretary
of State under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10
to the Social Security Act 1975
(payments in connection with work of tribunals) relating to the work of the
Commissioners in England and Wales;
(c) the making, under or for the purposes
of the provisions mentioned in the Schedule to this Order, of regulations
with respect to proceedings before the Commissioners, whether for the determination
of any matter or for leave to appeal to or from the Commissioners.
3 
In the following provisions for “the Secretary of
State”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “the
Lord Chancellor”—
 paragraph 4 of Schedule 10
to the Social Security Act 1975,

 section 14(8)(a)
of the Social Security Act 1980,

 section 13(1) of the 
Judicial Pensions Act 1981, and
 section 4(2)
of the Forfeiture Act 1982.

4 

(1) Enactments passed and instruments made
before the coming into operation of this Order have effect, so far as may
be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the transfers effected by
this Order, as if references to the Secretary of State or his Department or
to an officer of his (including references which are to be construed as such
references) were references to the Lord Chancellor or to his Department or
to an officer of his, as the case may require.
(2) This Order does not affect the validity
of anything done (or having effect as done) by or in relation to the Secretary
of State before the coming into operation of this Order, and anything which
at the time of the coming into operation of this Order is in process of being
done by or in relation to the Secretary of State may, if it relates to a function
transferred by this Order, be continued by or in relation to the Lord Chancellor.

(3) Anything done (or having effect as done)
by the Secretary of State for the purpose of a function transferred by this
Order, if in force at the coming into operation of this Order, has effect,
so far as required for continuing its effect after the coming into operation
of this Order, as if done by the Lord Chancellor.
G.I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE
Article 2(c)


 Sections 6(1)
and 10 of the Family
Income Supplements Act 1970
 Section 6
of the National Insurance Act 1974
 Sections 112(3) and 
(5) and 115(1)
of, and the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”
in Schedule 20 to, the 
Social Security Act 1975.
 Sections 7
and 22(1) of the 
Child Benefit Act 1975.
 Sections 2(1)
and 14(1), and the definition
of “regulations” in section 34(1)
, of the Supplementary Benefits Act
1976
 Sections 14
and 15(1) and (2)
 of the Social Security Act 1980
 Section 15(5),
and the definition of “regulations” in 
section 47, of, and Schedule 3
to, the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982.

 Section 4 of the 
Forfeiture Act 1982.
