The Social Security (Child Maintenance Premium and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000

Revocations and transitional provisions

4.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4) below—

(a) regulations 2 to 13 of the Social Security (Child Maintenance Bonus) Regulations 1996(1) (“the Child Maintenance Bonus Regulations”);

(b) the Child Maintenance Bonus (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1997(2) (“the Reciprocal Arrangements Regulations”);

(c) regulation 8 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997(3); and

(d) regulation 2 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998(4),

are hereby revoked.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, regulations 2 to 13 of the Child Maintenance Bonus Regulations and the Reciprocal Arrangements Regulations shall continue to have effect as if paragraph (1) above had not been made in relation to a person who—

(a) claimed a child maintenance bonus before the commencement date but whose claim was not determined until on or after that date; or

(b) claims a child maintenance bonus on or after the commencement date but within the time specified in regulations 3(1)(f)(5), 10(1) and, where applicable, 11(4) of the Child Maintenance Bonus Regulations.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, regulation 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Child Maintenance Bonus Regulations shall have effect as if for the words “14 days” there were substituted the words “one month”.

(4) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Secretary of State from issuing a written statement pursuant to regulation 6(1) of the Child Maintenance Bonus Regulations to a person who appears to him to satisfy the requirements of regulation 3 of those Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1996/3195.

(2)

S.I. 1997/645.

(3)

S.I. 1997/454.

(4)

S.I. 1998/563.

(5)

Regulation 3(1)(f) was substituted by S.I. 1998/563.