Power to reduce child benefit for lone parents
68.—(1) Regulations may revoke any provision of regulations which prescribes a higher rate of child benefit in the case of a lone parent, notwithstanding anything in section 141(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (which precludes regulations from prescribing a rate lower than the rate it replaces).
(2) In this Article “lone parent” means a parent who—
(a)has no spouse or is not living with his spouse; and
(b)is not living with any other person as his spouse.