Fines (Deductions from Income Support) Regulations 1992

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Fines (Deductions from Income Support) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1971 Act” means the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971(1);

“the 1973 Act” means the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973(2);

“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Administration Act 1992(3);

“adjudication officer” means an officer appointed in accordance with section 38(1) of the 1992 Act;

“application” means an application made under regulation 2 in the form and containing the information specified in regulation 3(1);

“appropriate appeal court” means, except in regulation 9(9), the appropriate court as determined in accordance with regulation 9(9) and 9(10);

“benefit week” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations;

“the Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987(4);

“Commissioner” means the Chief or any other Social Security Commissioner appointed in accordance with section 52(1) or (2) of the 1992 Act and includes a Tribunal of Commissioners constituted in accordance with section 57(1) of that Act;

“court” means in England and Wales a magistrates' court and in Scotland a court;

“5 per cent. of the personal allowance for a single claimant aged not less than 25” means, where the percentage is not a multiple of 5 pence, the sum obtained by rounding that 5 per cent to the next higher such multiple;

“Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(5);

“payments to third parties” means direct payments to third parties in accordance with Schedules 9 and 9A to the Claims and Payments Regulations, regulation 2(4) of the Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) (No. 2) Regulations 1990(6) and regulation 2(4) of the Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) (Scotland) Regulations 1989(7);

“personal allowance for a single claimant aged not less than 25” means the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of column 2 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations;

“social security office” means an office of the Department of Social Security which is open to the public for the receipt of claims for income support and includes an office of the Department of Employment which is open to the public for the receipt of claims for unemployment benefit;

“tribunal” means a social security appeal tribunal constituted in accordance with section 41 of the 1992 Act; and

(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation, Part or Schedule is a reference to the regulation, Part or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation or Schedule having that number.

(1)

1971 c. 10.

(2)

1973 c. 62.

(3)

1992 c. 5.

(4)

S.I. 1987/1968.

(5)

S.I. 1987/1967; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/1445 and S.I. 1991/2910.

(6)

S.I. 1990/545.

(7)

S.I. 1989/507; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1990/113.