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  • Social Security Electronic Communications Directions

    Topics:
    • Benefits and pensions, 
    • Law and legislation, 
    • Social security legislation

    Date published: 17 June 2020

    Last updated: 14 November 2024

    The Electronic Communications Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 enables the Department to authorise the use of electronic communications for any purpose where it considers that the authorisation is such that the extent (if any) to which records of things done for that purpose will be no less satisfactory in cases where use is made of electronic communications or electronic storage than in other cases.

    Documents

    • Social Security (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2024Adobe PDF (78.56 KB)
    • The Social Security (Budgeting Loans) (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2023Adobe PDF (72.39 KB)
    • The Social Security (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) (No. 1) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2021Adobe PDF (118.19 KB)
    • The Social Security (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) (No. 3) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2020Adobe PDF (118.61 KB)
    • The Social Security (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) (No. 2) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2020Adobe PDF (343.86 KB)
    • The Social Security (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2020Adobe PDF (116.64 KB)
    • The Social Security (Electronic Communications) (Consolidation) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2017 (Amended)Adobe PDF (83.52 KB)
    • The Social Security (Electronic Communications) (Consolidation) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2017Adobe PDF (127.84 KB)

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