Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1977 c. 5
(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) Any power of Her Majesty, whether under an enactment or otherwise, to make provision about pensions or other benefits for or in respect of persons who have been disabled or have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown shall continue to be exercisable in any manner in which it may be exercised apart from this subsection and shall also be exercisable by Order in Council in pursuance of this subsection; and such an Order shall be made by statutory instrument and laid before Parliament after being made.in any enactment relating to such pensions or other benefits as are mentioned in the preceding subsection; andin any enactment by virtue of which and any instrument by which provisions relating to such pensions or other benefits may be or are applied to service otherwise than in the said forces; andin any other enactment or instrument which refers to, or to an instrument relating to, such pensions or other benefits,(3) An Order made in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section may vary or revoke any instrument made otherwise than under this section so far as the instrument relates to such pensions or other benefits as are mentioned in that subsection.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) For section 21 of that Act (which relates to false statements) there shall be substituted the following section—
  • “(21) If any person, for the purpose of obtaining supplementary benefit or any other payment under this Act for himself or another person or for any other purp[ose connected with this Act,—
  • (a) makes any statement or representation which he knows to be false; or
  • (b) produces or furnishes, or causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular,
  • he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.
makes any statement or representation which he knows to be false; orproduces or furnishes, or causes or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any document or information which he knows to be false in a material particular,(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(15) In subsection (3) of section 7 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 (which specifies the tribunals mentioned in certain paragraphs of Schedule 1 to that Act of which the chairman are to be selected from a panel of persons appointed by the Lord Chancellor but does not include among those paragraphs paragraph 30A(a) or (c) which relate to certain local and medical tribunals constituted in pursuance of the principal Act) , after the word “28(a) ” where it first occurs there shall be inserted the words “30A(a) or (c) ”.(16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (17) The

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