Supplementary Benefit (Requirements) Amendment Regulations 1984

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1984/282

1984 No. 282

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Supplementary Benefit (Requirements) Amendment Regulations 1984

5thMarch 1984

1stApril 1984

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976(a) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, and after reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee(b), hereby makes the following regulations of which a draft has, in accordance with section 33(3) of that Act, been laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Supplementary Benefit (Requirements) Amendment Regulations 1984 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1984.

(2) In these regulations the "principal regulations" means the Supplementary Benefit (Requirements) Regulations 1983(c).

Amendment of regulation 19 of the principal regulations

2. In regulation 19 of the principal regulations (housing benefit supplement) in paragraph (2)(b) for "entitlement" there is substituted "which was granted or which would have been granted but for regulation 20(1) of the Housing Benefits Regulations".

Amendment of regulation 22 of the principal regulations

3.—(1) Regulation 22 of the principal regulations (reduction for certain occupants of the home) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (4)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (c)—

(i) head (i) is omitted, and

(a) 1976 c. 71; Schedule 1 was substituted by paragraph 30 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30).

(b) See section 10(1) of the Social Security Act 1980.

(c) S.I. 1983/1399.

(ii) in head (ii) for "21" there is substituted "18" and for "£4.70" there is substituted "£6.15"; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (e)—

(i) for "18" in each place where it occurs there is substituted "21", and

(ii) after "a person" there is inserted "not in receipt of a pension or allowance".

(3) In paragraph (5) there is added after sub-paragraph (f) the following sub-paragraph—

"(g) for a non-dependant who is in receipt of a training allowance paid by the Manpower Services Commission in connection with a Youth Training Scheme established under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(a), or for a group of non-dependants of which the head is a person in receipt of such an allowance.".

(4) In paragraph (6)(b)...

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