Statutory Instruments
SOCIAL SECURITY
Made
7th March 1991
Laid before Parliament
14th March 1991
Coming into force
8th April 1991
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 64(1C) of the Social Security Act 1975(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 8th April 1991.
2. In section 64(1B) of the Social Security Act 1975(2)—
(a)in paragraph (a) for the amount of £100 there shall be substituted the amount of £110; and
(b)in paragraph (b) for the amounts of £13 and £100 there shall be substituted the amounts of £14 and £110 respectively.
3. The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1990(3)is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Nicholas Scott
Minister of State,
Department of Social Security
7th March 1991
(This note is not part of the Order)
Where a disablement pension with unemployability supplement is increased in respect of a child and the beneficiary is one of two persons who are spouses residing together or an unmarried couple, section 64(1B) of the Social Security Act 1975 provides that the increase shall not be payable in respect of the first child if the other person’s earnings are £100 a week or more and in respect of a further child for each complete £13 by which the earnings exceed £100. This Order substitutes the amounts of £110 for the amounts of £100 and £14 for the amount of £13.
Article 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.
1975 c. 14; section 64(1C) was inserted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48,) Schedule 5, paragraph 4.
Section 64(1B) was inserted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984, Schedule 5, paragraph 4.
S.I. 1990/619.