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Child Benefit (Up-Rating) Regulations 1985

As Enacted Cited authorities 7 Cited in Amendments 2 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1985/1243
Year1985

1985 No. 1243

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Child Benefit (Up-Rating) Regulations 1985

2ndAugust 1985

25thNovember 1985

Whereas a draft of the following regulations was, in accordance with the provisions of section 22(3) of the Child Benefit Act 1975(a), laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Services, in conjunction with the Treasury(b), and in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 5 and 24(1) of the Child Benefit Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation, interpretation and commencement

1. These regulations, which may be cited as the Child Benefit (Up-Rating) Regulations 1985, amend the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Regulations 1976(c) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations") and shall come into operation on 25th November 1985.

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal regulations

2. In regulation 2 of the principal regulations (weekly rates of child benefit)—

(a) in paragraph (1) for "£6.85" there shall be substituted "£7.00";

(b) in paragraph (2) for "£4.25" there shall be substituted "£4.55".

(a) 1975 c. 61.

(b) See section 22(1)(a) of the Child Benefit Act 1975.

(c) S.I. 1976/1267; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1977/1328, 1980/110, 1984/1106.

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

Tony Newton, Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security.

29th July 1985.

Donald Thompson, John Major, Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

2nd August 1985.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Regulations.)

These regulations further amend the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Regulations 1976 by providing with effect from 25th November 1985 that the weekly rates of benefit payable under the Child...

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