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National Assistance Act 1959

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved


National Assistance Act, 1959

(7 & 8 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 52

An Act to empower the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance to make orders increasing any of the amounts specified in paragraph 3 or 5 of the Second Schedule to the National Assistance Act, 1948, and making certain consequential provision.

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 Power to increase certain disregards.

1 Power to increase certain disregards.

(1) The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, after consultation with the National Assistance Board, may by order amend the Second Schedule to the National Assistance Act, 1948 (which sets out rules as to disregarding certain assets in computing resources) by increasing any of the amounts for the time being specified in paragraph 3 or 5 of that Schedule; and if the said paragraph 5 is for the time being reproduced in the Second Schedule to the Legal Aid and Advice Act, 1949 , or to the Legal Aid and Solicitors (Scotland) Act, 1949 , or, in pursuance of subsection (5) of section four of either of those Acts, in any regulations made under that section, any such order amending that paragraph shall also amend that Schedule or those regulations in the like manner.

(2) Any order under this section shall be made by statutory instrument and may revoke so much of any previous order thereunder as it supersedes and—

(a ) in the case of an order made within one month after the passing of this Act, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament;

(b ) in any other case, shall not be made unless a draft thereof has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

S-2 Citation.

2 Citation.

2. This Act may be cited as theNational Assistance Act, 1959, and shall be included among the Acts which may be cited together as the National Assistance Acts, 1948 to 1959.

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