The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.3) Regulations 1998

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.3) Regulations 1998 and this regulation and regulation 2 of these Regulations shall come into force on 1st June 1998.

(2) Regulation 3 of these Regulations shall come into force on 2nd June 1998 but in the case of a claimant for disability working allowance or family credit who has an award of either of these benefits which is current on 2nd June 1998, that regulation shall have effect as from the day following the expiration of that award.

(3) Regulation 4 of these Regulations shall come into force on 1st June 1998 but in the case of a claimant for income support whose benefit week does not commence on that date, that regulation shall have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant after that date.

(4) In paragraph (3) of this regulation, the expressions “benefit week” and “claimant” shall have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(1).

(5) Regulation 5 of these Regulations shall come into force on 1st June 1998 but in the case of a claimant for a jobseeker’s allowance whose benefit week does not commence on that date, that regulation shall have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant after that date.

(6) In paragraph (5) of this regulation, the expression “benefit week” shall have the same meaning as in regulation 1(3) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(2).

(1)

S.I. 1987/1967; the definition of “benefit week” was amended by S.I. 1988/1445.

(2)

S.I. 1996/207; the definition of “benefit week” was amended by S.I. 1996/1517 and 2538.