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Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1968

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Family Allowances andNational Insurance Act 1968

1968 CHAPTER 40

An Act to increase family allowances under the Family Allowances Act 1965 and make related adjustments of certain benefits under the National Insurance Act 1965 or the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965, and for connected purposes.

[3rd July 1968]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Increase of family allowances and related amendments.

1 Increase of family allowances and related amendments.

(1) The allowances payable under the Family Allowances Act 1965 , as amended by the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967 , for periods after the coming into force of this subsection shall be increased by three shillings, and accordingly in relation to any such period the said Act of 1965, as so amended, shall be further amended as follows—

(a ) in section 1 (payment and amount of allowances) for the words from ‘an allowance’ to the end there shall be substituted the words ‘an allowance in respect of each child in the family other than the elder or eldest at the rate of eighteen shillings a week in respect of the first child other than the elder or eldest and twenty shillings a week in respect of each other such child’;

(b ) in section 3(2) and in the proviso to paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule (minimum weekly contribution required from a person towards the maintenance of a child not living with him if the child is to be included in a family as being his issue or maintained by him) for the words ‘fifteen shillings a week’ there shall be substituted the words ‘eighteen shillings a week’;

and section 1(1) of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967 is hereby repealed.

(2) The following rates of benefit provided by Schedule 3 to the National Insurance Act 1965 , as amended by the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967, namely those specified in column 4 (increases for second qualifying child) and those specified in column 5 (increases for each additional qualifying child), shall each be decreased by three shillings; and accordingly—

(a ) for the provisions of that Schedule as set out in Schedule 1 to the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967 there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Schedule 1 to this Act; and

(b ) in the said Act of 1967, section 1(2) and Part I of Schedule 1 are hereby repealed.

(3) In the provisions of Schedule 3 to the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 , as set out in Schedule 6 to the National Insurance Act 1967 and Part I of Schedule 2 are hereby repealed.

(4) Section 114(2)(c ) of the National Insurance Act 1965 and section 86(2)(c ) of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 (under which references in those Acts to a person having a family which includes a child or children or to a child of a person's family are to be construed by reference to the operation of the Family Allowances Act 1965 ) shall have effect by reference to the operation of the Family Allowances Act 1965 as amended by subsection (1)(b ) above.

S-2 Expenses.

2 Expenses.

(1) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums payable out of such moneys under the Family Allowances Act 1965.

(2) Subject to the provision made by section 85 of the National Insurance Act 1965 for reimbursement out of the National Insurance Fund or by section 61 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 for reimbursement out of the Industrial Injuries Fund, there shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to this Act in the expenses of the Minister of Social Security or any other government department which are so payable under either of those sections.

S-3 Citation, construction, commencement and transitory provisions.

3 Citation, construction, commencement and transitory provisions.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1968, and—

(a ) the Family Allowances Acts 1965 and 1967 and this Act may be cited together as the Family Allowances Acts 1965 to 1968;

(b ) the National Insurance Acts 1965 to 1967 and this Act may be cited together as the National Insurance Acts 1965 to 1968; and

(c ) the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts 1965 to 1967 and this Act may be cited together as the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts 1965 to 1968.

(2) This Act—

(a ) in relation to allowances under the Family Allowances Act 1965 shall be construed as one with that Act;

(b ) in relation to benefit under the National Insurance Act 1965 shall be construed as one with that Act;

(c ) in relation to benefit under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 shall be construed as one with that Act.

(3) Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the commencement of section 1 of this Act and with respect to the transitory matters dealt with in that Schedule.

S C H E D U L E S

SCHEDULE 1

ActProvisions to be Substituted in Schedule 3 of National Insurance 1965

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Rates of Periodical Benefits and of Increases for Dependants

1 Description of Benefit

2 Weekly rate

3 Increase for only, elder or eldest qualifying child

4 Increase for second qualifying child

5 Increase for each additional qualifying child

6 Increase for adult dependant (where payable)
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.

1. Unemployment or sickness benefit under s. 19(2)—

(a ) in the case of a person over the age of 18, not being a married woman

 4 10 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0

(b ) in the case of a person under the age of 18, not being a married woman—

(i) during any period during which that person is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a child or adult dependant

 4 10 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0

(ii) during any other period

 2 10 0 — — — —

(c ) in the case of a married woman over the age of 18—

(i) during any period during which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of her husband, or during which she is not residing with her husband nor is he contributing to her maintenance at not less than the relevant rate

 4 10 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0

(ii) during any other period

 3 2 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0

(d) in the case of a married woman under the age of 18—

(i) during any period during

1 Description of Benefit

2 Weekly rate

3 Increase for only, elder or eldest qualifying child

4 Increase for second qualifying child

5 Increase for each additional qualifying child

6 Increase for adult dependant (where payable)
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.

1. Unemployment or sickness benefit under s. 19(2)

which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of her husband, or during which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a child or an adult dependant other than her husband and she is not residing with her husband nor is he contributing to her maintenance at not less than the relevant rate

 4 10 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0

(ii) during any other period during which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a child or adult dependant

 3 2 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0

(iii) during any other period

 2 10 0 — — — —

2. Unemployment or sickness benefit at a weekly rate determined under s. 19(3)

 — 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0
3. Maternity allowance 4 10 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0
4. Widow's allowance 6 7 0 2 5 6 1 7 6 1 5 6 —
5. Widowed mother's allowance 4 10 0 2 5 6 1 7 6 1 5 6 —
6. Widow's pension 4 10 0 — — — —
7. Guardian's allowance 2 5 6 — — — —

8. Retirement pension—

(a ) where the pension is payable to a woman by virtue of her husband's insurance and he is alive

 2 16 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 —

(b ) in any other case

 4 10 0 1 8 0 10 0 8 0 2 16 0
9. Child's special allowance 2 5 6 — 1 7 6 1 5 6 —
SCH-1.1

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