
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund (Application for Review) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 24th April 2006.
2 
In regulation 2 of the Social Fund (Application for Review) Regulations (Northern Ireland 1988 (manner of making application for review or further review and time limits) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—“
(1) Any application for—
(a) a review of any determination made by an appropriate officer shall be in writing and shall be made within the time specified in paragraph (2) by sending or delivering it to an office of the Department for Social Development;
(b) a further review by a social fund inspector of a determination of an appropriate officer which has been reviewed shall be in writing and shall be made within the time specified in paragraph (2) by sending or delivering it to—
(i) for the period up to 1st April 2007, either the Office of the Social Fund Commissioner or an office of the Department for Social Development,
(ii) for the period from and including 2nd April 2007, the Office of the Social Fund Commissioner only.”
3 
Article 10(a) of the Social Security (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 11 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 is hereby revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 31st March 2006.
John O'Neill
A senior officer of the
Department for Social Development
