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These regulations may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 16th September 1985.
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(1) The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 (the “principal regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 3(1) of the principal regulations after “44(1)(a),” there shall be inserted “44(3)(a),” and after “45(2)(b),” there shall be inserted “45A(2)(b), 47(1)(a),”
(3) For paragraph (5) of regulation 3 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“
(5) In the heading to this regulation and in paragraphs (1) and (2) the word “spouse” includes both husband and wife except in relation to maintenance contributions for the purposes of sections 44(1)(a) and 45(2)(b) where it means wife only, and in relation to maintenance contributions for the purposes of sections 44(3)(a), 45A(2)(b) and 47(1)(a) where it means husband only.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Trumpington
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health and Social Security
16th August 1985