The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 911

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 2001

Made

12th March 2001

Laid before Parliament

19th March 2001

Coming into force

9th April 2001

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 175(1) to (4) of, and paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 7 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 9th April 2001.

Increase of earnings limits in respect of dependent children

2.  In paragraph 4 of Schedule 7(2) to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992—

(a) in sub-paragraph (4)(a), for the amount of £145 there shall be substituted the amount of £150;

(b) in sub-paragraph (4)(b), for the amounts of £19 and £145 respectively there shall be substituted the amounts of £20 and £150 respectively.

Revocation

3.  The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1999(3) is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Jeff Rooker

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

12th March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Where a disablement pension with unemployability supplement is increased in respect of a child or children, and the beneficiary is one of two persons who are spouses residing together or an unmarried couple, paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 provides that the increase shall not be payable in respect of the first child if the other person’s earnings are £145 a week or more and in respect of a further child for each complete £19 by which the earnings exceed £145. Article 2 of this Order substitutes the amount of £150 for the amount of £145 and £20 for the amount of £19.

Article 3 contains revocations consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.

This Order does not impose any costs on business.

(1)

1992 c. 4.

(2)

The figures in paragraph 4(4) were up-rated by article 2 of S.I. 1999/529.

(3)

S.I. 1999/529.