The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1985

Statutory Instruments

1985 No. 1618

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1985

Made

25th October 1985

Laid before Parliament

4th November 1985

Coming into Operation

25th November 1985

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 49 and 166(1) of, and Schedule 20(1) to, the Social Security Act 1975(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations, the Social Security Advisory Committee having agreed that proposals to make the regulations need not be referred to it(3):—

Citation and commencement

1.  These regulations may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 25th November 1985.

Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977

2.  In paragraph 2B of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977(4) for the amount of £80, in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted the amount of £85.

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

Tony Newton

Minister of State

Department of Health and Social Security

25th October 1985

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Part I of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 prescribes the circumstances in which an increase of invalid care allowance is payable in respect of a dependent child. No such increase is payable for a first child where the beneficiary is one of two persons who are spouses residing together or an unmarried couple and the other person has earnings in any week at or above the specified amount, and an increase is not payable in respect of a further child for each complete £10 by which the earnings exceed that amount. These regulations increase the specified amount from £80 to £85.

(1)

See the definitions of “prescribe” and “regulations”.

(2)

section 49 was amended by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c.48), Schedule 4, paragraph 3.

(3)

See the Social Security Act 1980 (c.30), section 10(2).

(4)

the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1984/1699.