The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 No. 2441

Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

2.  In regulation 21(1) (direct credit transfer)—

(a) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—

“(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, benefit may, by an arrangement between the Secretary of State and the person claiming or entitled to it, be paid by way of direct credit transfer into a bank or other account—

(a) in the name of the person entitled to benefit, or his spouse or partner, or a person acting on his behalf, or

(b) in the joint names of the person entitled to benefit and his spouse or partner, or the person entitled to benefit and a person acting on his behalf.”;

(b) paragraph (2) shall be omitted;

(c) in paragraph (3), “as may be provided in the application” shall be omitted; and

(d) in paragraphs (3B) and (3C) for “any application to which paragraph (2) refers” there shall be substituted “an arrangement under that paragraph”.

(1)

Regulation 21 was amended by S.I. 1992/247, 1993/1113, 1994/2319, 1996/672, 1999/2358 and 2572 and 2000/1982.