26(1)In Schedule 6 to the 1986 Act, in paragraph 3 (Christmas bonus for pensioners: circumstances in which a person is to be treated as entitled to a qualifying benefit in a relevant week) the following provisions shall cease to have effect—
(a)sub-paragraph (2)(a)(ii) and (iii) (persons otherwise not entitled to a qualifying benefit in consequence of the former limit on pensioners' earnings or the requirement to claim the qualifying benefit); and
(b)sub-paragraph (3)(d) (couples: members otherwise not entitled to an increase in respect of the other member in consequence of the requirement to claim the benefit).
(2)This paragraph shall be deemed to have come into force on 1st October 1989.