Statutory Instruments
SOCIAL SECURITY
Made
9th July 1991
Coming into force
7th October 1991
Whereas a draft of the following regulations was laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament;
1. –
(1) These Regulations, which may be cited as the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1991, shall come into force on 7th October 1991.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Regulations 1976(3).
2. In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (weekly rates of child benefit)–
(a)in sub-paragraph (a), for the figure “£8.25” there shall be substituted the figure “£9.25”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (b), for the figure “£7.25” there shall be substituted the figure “£7.50”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Michael Jack
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
5th July 1991
We consent,
Thomas Sackville
Nicholas Baker
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
9th July 1991
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Child Benefitand Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Regulations 1976 by providing that the weekly rate of child benefit in respect of an only, elder or eldest child shall be increased to £9.25and in respect of other children to £7.50.
See section 22(1)(a) of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (c. 61).
1975 c. 61; section 5(5) was repealed by section 86(2)and Schedule 11 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50). Section 24(1) is an interpretation provisionand is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed”.