The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Minor Amendments) Regulations 1976

Amendments of the General Regulations

3.—(1) In regulation 2 of the General Regulations (special provisions as to contributions and expenditure in respect of a child) in paragraph (1) for the word “made” there shall be substituted the word “contributed”.

(2) In regulation 15 of the General Regulations (set-off of benefit against arrears of non-contributory invalidity pension and of non-contributory invalidity pension against arrears of benefit) after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph:—

“(3) For any period for which—

(a) a person would have been entitled to benefit in respect of a child but for the provisions of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Act (except where regulations otherwise provide, no person to be entitled to benefit in respect of a child for any week in which the child is entitled to a non-contributory invalidity pension under the Social Security Act); and

(b) benefit paid in respect of that child is treated as properly paid under paragraph (1),

the said paragraph 5 shall not apply in relation to that person and that child for the purpose, but only for the purpose, of determining the weekly rate of benefit to which that person is entitled in respect of any other child.”.