The Social Security (Financial Adjustments) Order 1988

Cases specified for the purposes of section 133(6) of the Social Security Act 1975

2.—(1) The cases set out in paragraph (2) of this article shall be cases specified for the purposes of section 133(6) of the 1975 Act (in which cases the amount, and the times and manner of the making of payments on account, of certain payments by way of adjustment are such as may be determined by the Secretary of State in accordance with any Treasury directions).

(2) The cases referred to in paragraph (1) of this article are those where adjustments fall to be made in respect of—

(a)payments of benefit, or payments under section 1 of the 1979 Act, made or falling to be made out of the National Insurance Fund;

(b)payments under Schedule 6 to the 1986 Act (Christmas bonus for pensioners) made or falling to be made out of the National Insurance Fund or out of money provided by Parliament;

(c)payments of benefit, or payments under section 1 of the 1979 Act, made or falling to be made out of money provided by Parliament by virtue (in the case of payments of benefit) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976(1) or of section 135(3)(b) of the Act or (in the case of payments under section 1 of the 1979 Act) of section 6(1)(b) of the 1979 Act; and

(d)payments of income support made or falling to be made out of money provided by Parliament by virtue of the 1986 Act.

(1)

1976 c. 71, as amended by section 6(1) of, and Part I of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30).