Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967

Section 1.

SCHEDULE 2 Amendments of National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965

PART I Amendments of Schedule 3

1 In Schedule 3 to the [1965 c. 52.] National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965, as set out in Schedule 6 to the [1967 c. 73.] National Insurance Act 1967, in paragraph 7 (under which the weekly amount of increases in respect of children in industrial injury benefit or a disablement pension is £1 5s. for the first and 17s. for any other child) there shall be substituted for the entries in column 2—

“(a) in respect of only, elder or eldest child of beneficiary's family	£1 8s.
(b) in respect of second child of beneficiary's family	13s.
(c) in respect of each additional child of beneficiary's family	11s.”

2 In that Schedule, as so set out, in paragraph 11, in sub-paragraph (a) (under which the ordinary weekly rate of death benefit in respect of children of the deceased's family is £15s. for the first and 17s. for any other child) there shall be substituted for the entries in column 2—

“(i) in respect of only, elder or eldest qualifying child	£1 8s.
(ii) in respect of second qualifying child	13s.
(iii) in respect of each additional qualifying child	11s.”

; and in sub-paragraph (b) (under which the additional weekly amount payable in cases where the beneficiary is the deceased's widow is 17s. 6d. for the first and for the second and 15s. 6d. for any other child) there shall be substituted for the entries in column 2 a single entry " 17s. 6d. in respect of each qualifying child ".

PART II Provisions to be Substituted for Schedule 5, Paragraph 1

Where two or more persons satisfy the conditions, in respect of the same death, for receipt of an allowance or allowances under section 21 of this Act for any period—

(a) not more than one of those persons shall be entitled for that period to such an allowance in respect of the same child, nor shall more than one of them be entitled for that period, in respect of different children, to such an allowance at a rate applicable to an only, elder or eldest child, nor more than one to such an allowance at a rate applicable to a second child ;

(b) where one of them is entitled to such an allowance at a rate above mentioned in respect of a child not included fn the family of the other or another of them, the rates of any such allowances to which that other is entitled shall be those that would have been appropriate if the child had been the elder or eldest or, as the case may be, the second child of that other's family ;

(c) where the deceased leaves a widow or widower, then for any period for which she or he is entitled to death benefit as the deceased's widow or widower and satisfies the conditions for receipt of such an allowance in respect of a child, she or he shall be entitled to the allowance in respect of that child, and any allowance payable to her or him in respect of the only, elder or eldest or the second child of her or his family shall be payable at a rate applicable to such a child ;

(d) subject to sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph, regulations may make provision as to the priority in any prescribed circumstances of two or more persons satisfying the said conditions.