Supplementary Benefit (Resources) Amendment Regulations 1985

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1985/614

1985 No. 614

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Supplementary Benefit (Resources) Amendment Regulations 1985

15thApril 1985

The Secretary of State for Social Services, with the consent of the Treasury(a), in exercise of powers conferred upon by him by sections 2(2) and 34(1)(b) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976(c) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, without having referred any proposals on the matter to the Social Security Advisory Committee since it appears to him by reason of urgency that it is inexpedient to do so(d), 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 and commencement

1. These regulations may be cited as the Supplementary Benefit (Resources) Amendment Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation forthwith.

Amendment of the Supplementary Benefit (Resources) Regulations 1981

2. After sub-paragraph (r) in regulation 11(2) of the Supplementary Benefit (Resources) Regulations 1981 (e) (calculation of other income) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

(a) See section 33(3) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (c. 71).

(b) See the definitions of "prescribed" and "regulations".

(c) 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 25 of and Part III of Schedule 8 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41).

(d) See section 10(2)(a) of the Social Security Act 1980.

(e) S.I. 1981/1527; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/1125, 1983/1240 and 1984/1102.

"(s) any payment of statutory sick pay under Part I of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982(a).".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Tony Newton, Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security.

10th April 1985.

We consent,

John Major, A. G. Hamilton, Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

15th April 1985.

(a) 1982 c. 24.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend regulation 11(2) of the Supplementary Benefit (Resources) Regulations 1981 by specifying in...

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