Social Security (Unemployment Benefit) and Supplementary Benefit Amendment Regulations 1986

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1986/1375

1986 No. 1375

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Unemployment Benefit) and Supplementary Benefit Amendment Regulations 1986

5thAugust 1986

11thAugust 1986

1stSeptember 1986

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17(2)(a) and 166(1) of, and Schedule 20(a) to, the Social Security Act 1975(b) and sections 5 and 34(c) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976(d) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these regulations should not be referred to it(e), hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1. These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Unemployment Benefit) and Supplementary Benefit Amendment Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1986.

Amendment of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983

2. For sub-paragraph (1)(i) of regulation 7 of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983(f) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph —

"(i) where a person —

(i) has failed to comply with a written notice given or sent to him by or on behalf of the Secretary of State or the Manpower Services Commission requesting him to report to an officer of the Department of Health and Social Security, the Department of Employment, the Manpower Services Commission or a local education authority at a time and place and on a day specified in the notice for an interview in connection with his prospects of employment;and

(a) See the definition of "Regulations".

(b) 1975 c.14.

(c) See the definition of "regulations".

(d) 1976 c.71, as amended by section 6(1) of, and Part I of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Act 1980 (c.30) and section 38(1) of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c.24).

(e) See section 10(2)(b) of the Social Security Act 1980.

(f) S.I. 1983/1598, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations.

(ii) within 14 days of the date on which that person fails to comply with the requirements of that notice a further notice is given or sent to him by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, or, as the case may be, the Manpower Services Commission requesting him to report to such an officer at a time and place and on a day specified in the further notice for the purpose of such an interview; and

(iii) that person...

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