The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017

Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 E+W+S

15.—(1) The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(3) (interpretation)(2)—

(a) omit the definitions of “bereavement allowance” and “bereavement payment”; and

(b) in the definition of “bereavement benefit”, for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

“(a) bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014; or”.

(3) In regulation 3 (revision of decisions)(3)—

(a) in paragraph (5ZB), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014;”; and

(b) in paragraph (8G)—

(i) in column 1 of the table, for “Bereavement allowance” substitute “Bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014”;

(ii) in column 2 of the table, for the corresponding entry to “Bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014” (as inserted by paragraph (i)) substitute “the contribution conditions set out in section 31 of the Pensions Act 2014 (bereavement support payment: contribution condition and amendments)”; and

(iii) omit the row with “Bereavement payment” in column 1.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 15 in force at 6.4.2017 in accordance with art. 1(2), 2, 3

(1)

S.I. 1999/991.

(2)

The definitions of “bereavement allowance”, “bereavement benefit” and “bereavement payment” were inserted by S.I. 2016/1145.

(3)

Regulation 3(5ZB) was inserted by S.I. 2007/2582. Regulation 3(8G) was inserted by S.I. 2016/1145. Regulation 3 was revoked by S.I. 2003/916 for the purposes of child benefit and guardian’s allowance.