Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1960

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Payment of pension to persons resident in Northern Ireland.

6.—Where a person who takes up or has taken up residence in Northern Ireland was, immediately before the commencement of such residence, in receipt of a pension, payment of the pension may, notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (a) of section 5 of the Act of 1911 but subject to paragraph (b) of that section, be made until either—

(a) the expiration of a period of five years from the commencement of such residence during which the person was continuously resident in Northern Ireland, or

(b) the receipt by the person of a payment by way of old age pension or public assistance from the appropriate authority in Northern Ireland,

whichever should first occur.