Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998 (No. 562).
Article 2 removes superfluous references in the definition of “interim subsidy”. Article 3 restructures the second condition for entitlement to subsidy and specifies the information local authorities may be required to provide in paragraph (2).
Regulation 3 modifies the meaning given to the expression “benefit savings” in the years beginning on 1st April 1997 and 1st April 1998. It also provides that benefit savings, which qualify for additional subsidy, includes payments stopped before a fraudulent overpayment occurs.
This Order does not impose a charge on businesses.