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The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1987
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1987 No. 688
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1987
Made
8th April 1987
Laid before Parliament
15th April 1987
Coming into force
11th May 1987
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 17(1)(a) of and Schedule 20 to the Social Security Act 1975(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 11th May 1987.
Amendment of regulation 3 of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983
2. In regulation 3(3) of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983(3) (earnings limit for persons deemed incapable of work) for the words “ordinarily exceed £26.00 a week.” there shall be substituted “exceed £26.00 in the week in which that work is performed.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
John Major
Minister of State,
Department of Health and Social Security
8th April 1987
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend regulation 3(3) of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 so that where a person undertakes work under medical supervision or as part of his treatment or work which he has good cause for doing he may be treated as incapable of work provided his earnings in the week in which that work is performed do not exceed the sum specified in the regulation, at present £26.00.
(1)
1975 c. 14; Schedule 20 is cited because of the meaning ascribed to “Regulations”.
(2)
See the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 10.
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