2003 No. 136
SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2003

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 73(1)(a) and 189 (1), (4) and (5) of the Social Security Administration Act 19921 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 it2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 7th April 2003.

Amendment to regulation 8 of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 19792.

(1)

Regulation 8 of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 (child benefit)3 is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In paragraph (2)—

(a)

after the words “is or would be payable to a beneficiary,” there shall be inserted the words “except where that benefit is guardian’s allowance payable to any person under section 77 of that Act,”;

(b)

sub-paragraph (a) shall be omitted; and

(c)

in sub-paragraph (b) the words “in any other case,” shall be omitted.

(3)

In paragraph (3) after the words “is or would be payable to a beneficiary,” there shall be inserted the words “except where that benefit is guardian’s allowance payable to any person under section 77 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
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/597) by removing the provision to adjust the amount of guardian’s allowance payable under section 77 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 by reference to the rates of child benefit payable.

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.