NATIONAL INSURANCE (INCREASE OF OLD AGE PENSIONS) REGULATIONS, 1946, Dated September 28, 1946, Made by the TREASURY UNDER SECTION 74 OF THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946 (9 & 10 GEO. 6. C. 67).
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1946/1604 |
| Year | 1946 |
1946 No. 1604
NATIONAL INSURANCE
THE NATIONAL INSURANCE (INCREASE OF OLD AGE PENSIONS) REGULATIONS, 1946, DATED SEPTEMBER 28, 1946, MADE BY THE TREASURY UNDER SECTION 74 OF THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946 (9 & 10 GEO. 6. C. 67).The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, in pursuance of Their powers under Section 74 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and of all other powers enabling Them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—
Citation and interpretation.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Insurance (Increase of Old Age Pensions) Regulations, 1946.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—
"the Contributory Pensions Acts" means the Widow's, Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Acts, 1936 to 1941;
"the Contributory Pensions Act of 1936" means the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1936, and "the relevant provisions of the Contributory Pensions Act of 1936" means Section 11 of, Section 43 of and the Fourth Schedule to, and Section 45 of, that Act;
"the Contributory Pensions Act of 1937" means the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions (Voluntary Contributors) Act, 1937;
2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 84.
"the Contributory Pensions Act of 1939" means the National Health Insurance and Contributory Pensions (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939;
"the Increase of Pensions Regulations" means the National Insurance (Increase of Contributory Pensions) Regulations, 1946(a);
"the Modification Regulations, 1939" means the Contributory Pensions (Modification of Old Age Pensions) Regulations, 1939(b);
"pension" does not include an additional allowance payable under the provisions of the Contributory Pensions Acts.
(3) In these Regulations the expression "exempt person" shall have the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Contributory Pensions Acts, and the expression "Pensions Accounts" means the Accounts specified in Part III of the Tenth Schedule to the National Insurance Act, 1946.
(4) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, references to any enactment or regulation shall include references to that enactment or regulation as amended by any subsequent enactment or regulation.
(5) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(6) These Regulations do not apply to Northern Ireland.
Increase in standard rate of certain old age pensions.
2. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, where a person is on the 30th September, 1946 entitled, or thereafter becomes entitled, to an old age pension under the Old Age Pensions Act, 1936, by virtue of any of the relevant provisions of the Contributory Pensions Act of 1936 at the standard rate of ten shillings a week, the rate of that pension shall be increased.
(a) to twenty-six shillings a week, except in the case of a pension payable to a married woman by virtue of the insurance of her husband;
(a) S.R. & O. 1946 No. 1508, p. 246 above.
(b) S.R. & O. 1939 (No. 1714) I, p. 453.
(b) to sixteen shillings a week in the case of a pension so payable to a married woman.
Increase in rates of certain old age pensions payable at less than the standard rate.
3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, where a person is on the 30th September, 1946 entitled, or thereafter becomes entitled, to an old age pension under the Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 by virtue of Section 11 of the Contributory Pensions Act of 1936 at a rate which is less than the standard rate of ten shillings a week, that is to say to a pension at one of the rates specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto, the rate of that pension shall be increased to the rate, appropriate to the circumstances of the case, specified in the second or third column of the said Schedule.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the last foregoing paragraph, in the case of a person whose pension under the Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 is payable at less than the standard rate of ten shillings a week by virtue of the insurance of that person or the husband of that person as a...
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