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These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Payments Etc.) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 4th April 1996.
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(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987  are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) In regulation 21—
(a) in paragraph (1) the words “to which this regulation applies"; and
(b) paragraph (6),
shall be omitted.
(4) For regulation 29 there is substituted the following regulation—“
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Where benefit is paid to a person under the age of 18 (whether on his own behalf or on behalf of another) the receipt of that person shall be a sufficient discharge to the Secretary of State.”.
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(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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In regulation 9C of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (payments by the Secretary of State) , after the words “instrument of payment" there are inserted the words “, instrument for benefit payment".
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 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
 Oliver Heald
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
