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Social Security Act 1985

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I Occupational Pensions

    1. 1.Short service benefit for members of schemes whose employment is terminated before age of 26

    2. 2.Transfer and revaluation

    3. 3.Information about schemes

    4. 4.Earnings factors and guaranteed minimum pensions

    5. 5.Managers of schemes

    6. 6.Miscellaneous amendments relating to protection of pensions

  3. PART II Social Security

    1. 7.Calculation of contributions

    2. 8.Dock workers

    3. 9.Abatement of invalidity allowance etc., where beneficiary entitled to additional component in pension or to guaranteed minimum pension

    4. 10.Voluntary redundancy-entitlement to unemployment benefit

    5. 11.Entitlement of married women to Category A retirement pensions

    6. 12.Abolition of lower rate for Category D retirement pension

    7. 13.Pension increases in respect of adult dependants-equal treatment for males and females etc.

    8. 14.Special hardship allowance

    9. 15.Invalidity pension

    10. 16.Up-rating benefits

    11. 17.Entitlement to benefit dependent on claim

  4. PART III Statutory Sick Pay

    1. 18.Period of entitlement

    2. 19.Right of employers to amounts in respect of contributions

    3. 20.Medical evidence

    4. 21.Miscellaneous amendments relating to statutory sick pay

  5. PART IV Miscellaneous and Supplementary

    1. Miscellaneous

      1. 22.Housing benefits-subsidy

      2. 23.Vaccine damage payments

      3. 24.Power to extend Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979

      4. 25.Pensions and gratuities for members of certain Boards

    2. Supplementary

      1. 26.Regulations about occupational pensions

      2. 27.Other regulations

      3. 28.Financial provision

      4. 29.Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

      5. 30.Northern Ireland

      6. 31.Extent

      7. 32.Commencement

      8. 33.Citation

  6. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      TRANSFER AND REVALUATION

      1. PART I New Sections

        1. 1.The following section shall be inserted after section 44 of...

        2. 2.The following shall be inserted at the beginning of Part...

      2. PART II New Schedule

        1. 3.The following Schedule shall be inserted after Schedule 1 to...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Information About and Registration of Occupational Pension Schemes

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Earnings Factors and Guaranteed Minimum Pensions

      1. PART I Earnings Factors

        1. Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c.60)

          1. 1.In subsection (1) of section 21 of the Social Security...

          2. 2.(1) In subsection (7) of section 35 of that Act...

          3. 3.The following subsections shall be inserted after subsection (4) of...

          4. 4.The following paragraph shall be substituted for subsection (6)(a) of...

          5. 5.The following paragraph shall be substituted for subsection (3)(a) of...

        2. Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (c.5)

          1. 6.The following paragraph shall be substituted for subsection (1)(a) of...

          2. 7.(1) The provisions of this Part of this Schedule other...

      2. PART II Guaranteed Minimum Pensions

        1. Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c.60)

          1. 8.In section 35 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Miscellaneous Amendments Relating to Statutory Sick Pay

      1. Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c.32)

        1. 1.In section 24(1) of the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971...

      2. Social Security Act 1975 (c.14)

        1. 2.In subsection (8) of section 22 of the Social Security...

        2. 3.In section 36 of that Act (severe disablement allowance), the...

      3. Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c.24)

        1. 4.The following subsections shall be inserted after subsection (6) of...

        2. 5.The following provisions of that Act (which relate to certain...

        3. 6.(1) In subsection (1) of section 26 of that Act...

        4. 7.In section 26(2) of that Act for the words "...

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Minor and Consequential Amendments

      1. Social Security Act 1973 (c.38)

        1. 1.In subsection (1)(b) of section 66 of the Social Security...

        2. 2.In section 89 of that Act (disclosure of information by...

        3. 3.The following sub-paragraph shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (2) of...

        4. 4.In paragraph 15 of that Schedule (assignment, surrender and commutation...

      2. Social Security Act 1975 (c.14)

        1. 5.In subsection (3)(b) of section 1 of the Social Security...

        2. 6.In section 13 of that Act— (a) in paragraph (a)...

        3. 7.The following subsection shall be added at the end of...

        4. 8.The following section shall be substituted for section 83 of...

        5. 9.In section 122 of that Act (additional power to alter...

        6. 10.The following paragraph shall be substituted for subsection (1)(d) of...

        7. 11.In section 134(4) of that Act (national health service and...

        8. 12.In section 167 of that Act (parliamentary control of orders...

        9. 13.In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to that Act (Class...

        10. 14.In Schedule 20 to that Act (glossary of expressions) the...

      3. Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c.60)

        1. 15.In section 1(1))(b) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975...

        2. 16.In section 6 of that Act (rate of Category A...

        3. 17.In section 27 of that Act (contracted-out rates of Class...

        4. 18.In section 28 of that Act (orders altering the contracted-out...

        5. 19.The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (5) of...

        6. 20.The words ", except in the case mentioned in section...

        7. 21.The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (1A) of...

        8. 22.(1) In section 41A of that Act (protection of earners'...

        9. 23.The following further amendments of that section shall also be...

        10. 24.In section 41B of that Act (protection of widows' pensions)—...

        11. 25.(1) The words " the prescribed person " shall be...

        12. 26.The following subsection shall be inserted after section 43(1) of...

        13. 27.In subsection (2) of section 44 of that Act (premium...

        14. 28.In section 46 of that Act (provisions as to actuarial...

        15. 29.The following subsection shall be inserted after section 47(2) of...

        16. 30.The following subsection shall be inserted after section 47(9) of...

        17. 31.In section 48 of that Act (guaranteed minimum pensions to...

        18. 32.The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (2) of...

        19. 33.The words " under section 38 of this Act" shall...

        20. 34.In subsection (1) of section 60 of that Act (determination...

        21. 35.In subsection (4) of section 68 of that Act (provisions...

        22. 36.In Schedule 3 to that Act (priority in bankruptcy of...

      4. Social Security Act 1980 (c.30)

        1. 37.In section 9(7) of the Social Security Act 1980, for...

      5. Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c.24)

        1. 38.In section 20 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits...

      6. Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c.48)

        1. 39.In section 26(5) of the Health and Social Security Act...

      7. Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/591)

        1. 40.In regulation 98(c) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979...

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      Repeals

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