The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2003/2275 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2526

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

30th September 2003

Laid before Parliament

3rd October 2003

Coming into force

5th October 2003

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraphs 3(1), 20(1) and (3) and 23(1) of Schedule 7 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000(1) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned that consultations should not be undertaken(2) and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it(3), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 5th October 2003.

Amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003

2.  In regulation 5(3) of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003(4), in inserted paragraph (7C), for the words from “paragraph 4 of Schedule 7” to the end of that paragraph, substitute “section 9 or 10 of the 1998 Act or on an appeal under section 12 of that Act.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

P. Hollis

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

30th September 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 5(3) of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003, which inserted paragraph (7C).

Regulation 2 substitutes words in the new paragraph (7C) of regulation 4 of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001 so as to cite provisions in the Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14) relating to revisions, supersessions and appeals.

These Regulations do not impose a cost on business.

(1)

2000 c. 19. Paragraph 23(1) of Schedule 7 is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed”.

(2)

See section 176(2)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.

(3)

See section 170 and 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.

(4)

S.I. 2003/2275.