1997 No. 806
The Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance (General) Amendment Regulations 1997
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 128(5), 129(8), 137(1) and (2)(d) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of 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 Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance (General) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 7th October 1997.
2
In relation to any particular claimant for either family credit or disability working allowance, regulations 2, 3 and 4 of these Regulations shall have effect, where a claimant has an award of either of those benefits—
a
which expires on 6th October 1997, on 7th October 1997;
b
which expires after 6th October 1997, on the day following the expiration of that award.
Family credit: remunerative work2
In regulation 4(4)(c)(ii)(bb) of the Family Credit Regulations5 (remunerative work), after the words “the date of claim”, there shall be inserted the words “or he has, in the five weeks immediately preceding the week of claim, increased the number of hours that he works from below 16 hours to 16 hours or more per week,”.
Family credit: determination of maximum credit3
For the entries in column (2) of Schedule 4 to the Family Credit Regulations6 against paragraph 3 (maximum credits in respect of young persons) there shall be substituted the entry “£24.80.”.
Disability working allowance: determination of maximum allowance4
For paragraph 4 in column (2) of Schedule 5 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations7 (maximum allowances in respect of young persons) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
4.
£24.80.
Amendment of the Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 19965
1
The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 19968 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
2
In regulation 1(5) (citation, commencement and interpretation), for the words from “which is current” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words—
—
a
which expires on 6th October 1997, on 7th October 1997;
b
which expires after 6th October 1997, on the day following the expiration of that award.
3
In regulation 10(3) (transitional provisions), after the words “of these Regulations” there shall be inserted the words—
or regulation 3 or 4 of the Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance (General) Amendment Regulations 19979.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)