Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Minor Amendments) Regulations 1976
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1976/1758 |
| Year | 1976 |
1976 No. 1758
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Minor Amendments) Regulations 1976
Made 22th October 1976
Laid before Parliament 1st November 1976
Coming into Operation 22th November 1976
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 3(5), 6(3), 13(1) and 20(1) of and paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Child Benefit Act 1975, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These regulations, which may be cited as the Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Minor Amendments) Regulations 1976, shall come into operation on 22nd November, 1976.
(2) In these regulations—
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and each provision of these regulations shall be read as one with the regulations which it amends.
Amendments of the Claims and Payments Regulations
2.—(1) In regulation 9 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (modification of section 6(3) of the Child Benefit Act 1975 which section provides that except where regulations otherwise provide no person shall be entitled to benefit for any week on a claim made by him after that week if benefit in respect of the same child has already been paid for that week to another person, whether or not that other person was entitled to it) at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be added the words .
(2) In Part V of the Claims and Payments Regulations (transitional provisions) after regulation 16 there shall be inserted the following regulation:—
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Treating a claim to benefit under section 16 of the Act as a claim to an increase
16A. If the Secretary of State in his discretion so determines, a claim to benefit under section 16 of the Act (interim benefit for unmarried or separated parents with children) made in the transitional period may be treated as a claim to an increase
Amendments of the General Regulations
3.—(1) In regulation 2 of the General Regulations (special provisions as to contributions and expenditure in respect of a child) in paragraph (1) for the word there shall be substituted the word .
(2) In regulation 15 of the General Regulations (set-off of benefit against arrears of non-contributory invalidity pension and of non-contributory invalidity pension against arrears of benefit)...
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