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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Amendment Regulations 1999.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations shall come into force on 12th April 1999.
(3) These Regulations shall come into force–
(a) on 13th April 1999, where in any particular case the weekly rate of widowed mother’s allowance is increased, or guardian’s allowance is payable (other than a case where the Secretary of State has arranged for guardian’s allowance to be payable on a Monday) in respect of a child or children;
(b) on the 14th April 1999, where in any particular case the weekly rate of disablement benefit, or invalid care allowance (where that benefit is payable on a Wednesday), is increased in respect of a child or children, or where an allowance is paid in respect of a child or children under paragraph 18 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (children of deceased’s family);
(c) on the 15th April 1999, where in any particular case the weekly rate of incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance, disablement benefit paid under article 18 of the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983 or retirement pension of any category (where that pension is payable on a Thursday), is increased in respect of a child or children; and
(d) where in any particular case the weekly rate of retirement pension is increased in respect of a child or children and that pension is payable, in accordance with regulation 22(3) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to, the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 on a day other than Monday or Thursday, on the day in the week commencing 12th April 1999 which corresponds with the day of the week in respect of which retirement pension is payable in that case.
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In regulation 8(3) of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 there shall be substituted for the figure “£0.75 ” the figure “£3.35”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Stephen C. Timms
Minister of State,
Department of Social Security
15th March 1999