The Social Security (Local Councillors) Amendment Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1286

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Local Councillors) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made

22nd June 1990

Laid before Parliament

29th June 1990

Coming into force

1st August 1990

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 30(1) of, and paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 to the Social Security Act 1989(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 (Local Councillors) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st August 1990.

Amendment of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance (Amendment) and Local Councillors Consequential) Regulations 1989

2.  In paragraph (3) of regulation 3 of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance (Amendment) and Local Councillors Consequential) Regulations 1989(3) (treatment of a local councillor’s allowance paid otherwise than weekly) for the words “In the case of a special responsibility allowance,” there shall be substituted the words “In the case of a basic allowance or a special responsibility allowance,”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

22nd June 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance (Amendment) and Local Councillors Consequential) Regulations 1989. They provide for the calculation of a councillor’s basic allowance for the purposes of severe disablement allowance, sickness benefit, invalidity benefit or an invalidity pension under section 15 or section 16 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60). They are made as a consequence of the amendment to Schedule 8 to the Social Security Act 1989 by Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. That Act introduced a basic allowance for councillors which is payable in addition to an attendance allowance and a special responsibility allowance.

(1)

1989 c. 24. Section 30(1) is cited for the meaning it ascribes to “regulations”. Paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 was amended by paragraph 113 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

(2)

See the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 61(1)(b) and (10); the Social Security Act 1989, Schedule 8, added a definition of “regulations” to section 61(10) of the Act of 1986.

(3)

S.I. 1989/1687.