Family Allowances (Qualifications) Amendment Regulations 1969

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1970/24
Year1970

1970 No. 24

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Family Allowances (Qualifications) Amendment Regulations 1969

7thJanuary 1970

19thJanuary 1970

6thApril 1970

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in conjunction with the Treasury, in exercise of his powers under sections 13 and 20 of the Family Allowances Act 1965(a), 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 Family Allowances (Qualifications) Amendment Regulations 1969, shall be read as one with the Family Allowances (Qualifications) Regulations 1969(b) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations") and shall come into operation on 6th April 1970.

Amendment of Part III of the principal regulations

2.—(1) Part III of the principal regulations (rules for determining whether presence in or absence from Great Britain is or is not to be treated as temporary) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 8(1) of the principal regulations, for the words "For the purposes of section 20(2) of the Act—", there shall be substituted the words "Subject to the provisions of this Part of these regulations, for the purposes of section 20(2) of the Act—".

(3) After regulation 10 of the principal regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation :—

"Persons receiving emoluments exempted from United Kingdom income tax

10A.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, for the purposes of section 20(2) and (4) of the Act, the presence of a person and, unless he and his spouse are not living together and he is not wholly or mainly maintaining his spouse, of his spouse shall be treated as temporary during any period in respect of which he receives emoluments which are exempt from income tax under—

(a) section 73 of the Finance Act 1960(c) (exemptions from income tax etc. of visiting forces and staffs of allied headquarters);

(b) section 461 or section 462 of the Income Tax Act 1952(d), or section 24 of the Finance Act 1954(e) (exemptions from income tax etc. of Commonwealth Agents-General and their staffs, of certain foreign consular staffs and of other official agents of foreign countries);

(a) 1965 c. 53.

(b) S.I. 1969/212 (1969 I, p. 543).

(c) 1960 c. 44.

(d) 1952 c. 10.

(e) 1954. c. 44.

(c) Article 34 or Article 37 of Schedule 1 to the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964(a), or, as from the day...

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