Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2003
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2003/937 |
2003 No. 937
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2003
Made 28th March 2003
Laid before Parliament 31th March 2003
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 60, 86A(1), 114(1), 122(1), 144(1), 147(1) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19921and sections 1(1C), 73(1), 78(2), 189(4) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 19922of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it3, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force–
(a) in the case of this regulation and regulation 2(1), (3), (4)(a), (5) and (8), on 6th April 2003;
(b) in the case of the remainder of regulation 2, on the day on which the provisions of the Tax Credits Act 2002 specified in the Tax Credits Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 20034come into force, subject to article 3 of that Order.
Consequential amendments
2.—(1) In the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 19765, regulation 2A(a) shall be omitted.
(2) In the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 19776–
(a)
(a) in regulation 3–
(i) in the heading, the words “or children” shall be omitted;
(ii) in paragraph (1), “43(1)(b),” shall be omitted;
(b)
(b) in regulation 4A(1), “41,” shall be omitted;
(c)
(c) regulation 4B(1)(c) and (4)(e) shall be omitted.
(3) In the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 19797, at the end of the definition of “dependency benefit” in regulation 2(1) there shall be added the words “or child tax credit under the Tax Credits Act 2002”.
(4) In the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 19798–
(a)
(a) regulation 1A(a) shall be omitted;
(b)
(b) in regulation 6(3)(c)–
(i) “41,” shall be omitted;
(ii) the word “and” after head (i) shall be omitted;
(iii) head (ii) shall be omitted.
(5) In the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 19849, regulation 2A(a) shall be omitted.
(6) In the Social Fund (Recovery by Deductions from Benefits) Regulations 198810, regulation 3(o) shall be omitted.
(7) In the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit-Increases for Dependants) Regulations 199411–
(a)
(a) for regulation 3 there shall be substituted the following regulation–
“Allocation of contributions for a spouse
3. For the purposes of the Contributions and Benefits Act insofar as it relates to incapacity benefit, any sum paid by a person by way of contribution towards the maintenance of his spouse shall be treated for the purposes of regulations 9 and 12 as such contributions of such respective amounts equal in aggregate to the sum in respect of his spouse as would secure as large a payment as possible by way of benefit in...
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