PART 9AMENDMENTS TO SECONDARY LEGISLATION

The Social Security (Payments on Account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/664)

Conversion of payments by an authorised institution389

In regulation 10 of the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988 (Conversion of payments made in a foreign currency)283

a

the existing text is numbered paragraph (1);

b

in paragraph (1) for “any institution which is authorised under the Banking Act 1987” substitute “any authorised deposit-taker”;

c

after paragraph (1) insert—

2

In this regulation “authorised deposit-taker” means—

a

a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits; or

b

an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to that Act which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12(1) of that Schedule) to accept deposits.

3

Paragraph (2) must be read with—

a

section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

b

any relevant order under that section; and

c

Schedule 2 to that Act.