The Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations 1999

Regulation 4(1)

SCHEDULE 1 Local Authorities on which functions are conferred

PART I

Local Authority

ENGLAND:

• Aylesbury Vale

• Barking and Dagenham

• Calderdale

• Castle Point

• Chelmsford

• Chiltern

• Epping Forest

• Kirklees

• Maldon

• Mendip

• Milton Keynes

• North Warwickshire

• Nuneaton and Bedworth

• Redbridge

• Rochford

• Rugby

• Sedgemoor

• South Bucks

• Southend-on-Sea

• South Somerset

• Stratford-on-Avon

• Taunton Deane

• Waltham Forest

• Warwick

• West Somerset

• Wycombe

WALES:

• Monmouthshire

• Newport

• Torfean

SCOTLAND:

• Argyll and Bute

• East Renfrewshire

• Inverclyde

• North Ayreshire

• Renfrewshire

PART II

• Amber Valley

• Ashfield

• Babergh

• Bassetlaw

• Bolsover

• East Cambridgeshire

• Forest Heath

• Halton

• Ipswich

• Leeds

• Mansfield

• Mid-Suffolk

• North East Derbyshire

• Newark and Sherwood

• St. Edmunsbury

• St. Helens

• South Cambridgeshire

• Suffolk Coastal

• Vale Royal

• Warrington

• Waveney

• Wigan

Regulation 4(2)

SCHEDULE 2 Postcode Areas

PART I

• B37, B39, B46, B47, B49, B50, B76 to B79 and B93 to B95

• BA3 to BA11, BA16, BA20 to BA22, BA24 and BA26 to BA28

• CM0 to CM9

• CV3, CV4, CV7 to CV12, CV21 to CV23, CV31 to CV35 and CV36 to CV39DT9

• E4, E10, E11, E17 and E18

• EX15 and EX16

• G78

• GL50 and GL55

• GL56

• HD1 and HD5 to HD8

• HP1, HP4 to HP23 and HP27

• HX1 and HX7

• IG1 to IG11

• KA28 to KA30

• LE10

• LE17

• LU6 and LU7

• MK1 to MK19, MK43 and MK46

• NN6, NN11 and NN13

• NP1

• NP4

• NP5

• NP6

• NP7

• NP9, NP16, NP20, NP25, NP26 and NP44

• OL14

• OX5 to OX7, OX9 and OX15

• OX17

• PA1 to PA17 and PA20 to PA27

• RM6

• RM8

• RG9

• SL0 to SL4 and SL6 to SL9

• SS0 to SS7, SS9, SS11 and SS12

• SS17

• TA1 to TA24

• UB9

• WD3

• WF12 to WF17

• WO11

PART II

• BD2 to BD4, BD10, BD11, BD16, BD17 and BD20

• CB1 and CB5 to CB10

• CM11

• CO1, CO6 and CO8 to CO11

• DE5, DE55 and DE56

• DN22

• HG3 and HG5

• IP2 to IP20, IP22 to IP24 and IP27 to IP33

• LS1 to LS15 (except Bramhope), LS16, LS17, LS19, LS21, LS22, LS27 and LS28

• NG14 to NG23 and NG25

• NR10, NR14, NR15 and NR31 to NR35

• S44, S45 and S80

• WA1 to WA8 and WA11 to WA13

• WF3, WF6, WF10 and WF11

• YO8, YO23 and YO26

Regulation 18

SCHEDULE 3 Consequential Amendments

1.—(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) In regulation 23 (attendance) for the words “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “employment officer”.

(3) In regulation 24 (provision of information and evidence), at the end there shall be added the following paragraph —

“(11) In this regulation, references to the “Secretary of State” include a reference to persons designated as employment officers by an Order made by the Secretary of State under section 8(3) of the Jobseekers Act 1995(2).”.

2.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the entry relating to “refugee” there shall be inserted the following entry —

““relevant authority” means a person within section 72(2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999(4);”.

(3) In each of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (4) below, for the words “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “employment officer”.

(4) Those provisions are —

(a) regulation 4(6)(5) (making a claim for benefit); and

(b) regulation 6(4A)(6) (date of claim).

(5) In regulation 7(1), after the words “Secretary of State” in the first place where they occur, there shall be inserted the words “or, in a case where regulation 4A applies, the relevant authority”.

(6) In regulation 19(5)(d) (time for claiming benefit)(7), after the word “Employment” there shall be inserted the words “or in a case to which regulation 4A applies, a representative of a relevant authority”.

(7) In paragraph 2A(2)(b) of Schedule 7(8) after the words “associated office” there shall be inserted the words “or any office to which a claim may be made in accordance with regulation 4A(1)”.

(8) In regulation 32 (information to be given when obtaining benefit), after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph —

“(1A) In the case of a person who made a claim for benefit in accordance with regulation 4A(1), a change of circumstances may be notified to a relevant authority at any office to which the claim for benefit could be made in accordance with that provision.”.

(1)

S.I. 1996/207.

(2)

Section 8(3) was added by the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), Schedule 8, paragraph 29(3).

(3)

S.I. 1987/1968.

(4)

1999 c. 30

(5)

Regulation 4(6) was substituted by S.I. 1996/1460.

(6)

Regulation 6(4A) was inserted by S.I. 1997/793.

(7)

Regulation 19 was substituted by S.I. 1997/793.

(8)

Paragraph 2A was inserted by S.I. 1989/136.