Social Security (Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Amendment Regulations 1983
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1983/1587 |
1983 No. 1587
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Amendment Regulations 198326thOctober 1983
31stOctober 1983
21stNovember 1983
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(1)(a) and 36(9)(b) of the Social Security Act 1975(a), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement with the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these regulations should not be referred to it(b), hereby makes the following regulations:—
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Amendment Regulations 1983, and shall come into operation on 21st November 1983.
Amendment of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1975
2. In regulation 3 of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1975(c) (persons deemed to be incapable of work), in paragraph (3), for "£20" there shall be substituted "£22.50".
Amendment of the Social Security (Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Regulations 1975
3. In regulation 12 of the Social Security (Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Regulations 1975(d)(disqualification for non-contributory invalidity pension), in paragraph (d) (iii), for "£20" there shall be substituted "£22.50".
Revocation
4. The Social Security (Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Regulations 1982(e) are hereby revoked.
(a) 1975 c. 14.
(b) See Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 10(2)(b).
(c) S.I. 1975/564; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1979/1299, 1982/1492.
(d) S.I. 1975/1058; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1982/1492.
(e) S.I. 1982/1492.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Rhodes Boyson, Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security.
26th October 1983.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Note is not part of the Regulations.)
These regulations raise the earnings limit which applies to recipients of sickness benefit, invalidity benefit and...
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