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1988 No. 961
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security Act 1986 (Consequential) Amendment Regulations 1988
Made
31st May 1988
Laid before Parliament
1st June 1988
Coming into force
22nd June 1988
The Secretary of State for Social Services in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 84(1) and 89(1) of the Social Security Act 1986(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Act 1986 (Consequential) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 22nd June 1988.
Modification of section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986
2. Section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986 (annual uprating of benefits) shall be modified—
(a)by adding at the end of subsection (10) the words “or which are additions to income support under regulations made under section 89 of this Act”(3); and
(b)by inserting after subsection (10) the following subsection—
“(10A) Any increase under this section of any of the sums which are additions to income support mentioned in subsection (10) above shall take the form of a direction that any such sum shall be increased by a specified percentage of its amount apart from the order.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Nicholas Scott
Minister of State,
Department of Health and Social Security
31st May 1988
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations modify the Social Security Act 1986 to enable the uprating of the transitional additions to income support payable under regulations made under section 89 of that Act.
(1)
1986 c. 50; section 84(1) is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “regulations”.
(2)
See section 61(1)(b) of the Social Security Act 1986.
(3)
See the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1969).
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