The Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1991

Made15th July 1991

Laid before Parliament23rd July 1991

Coming into force7th October 1991

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 85, 166(2) and (3) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 19751, 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 it2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 7th October 1991.

2

In these Regulations “the Overlapping Benefits Regulations” means the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 19793.

Amendment of regulation 82

In regulation 8 of the Overlapping Benefits Regulations (child benefit)—

a

in paragraph (3) for the words “paragraph (4)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (4) and (5)”;

b

after paragraph (4) there shall be added the following paragraph—

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No adjustment of benefit shall be made under paragraph (3) in respect of any increase in the weekly rate of child benefit payable to a person in consequence of regulation 2 of the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 19914.

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

Nicholas ScottMinister of State,Department of Social Security15th July 1991

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 by providing that there shall be no adjustment of benefit payable under the Social Security Act 1975 in respect of any increase in the weekly rate of child benefit arising as a consequence of the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1991.