Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1130
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Council Tax Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2001
Made
22nd March 2001
Laid before Parliament
27th March 2001
Coming into force
1st April 2001
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 139(10) and 189(1) and (3) to (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned( 2 ), hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Council Tax Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
Amendment of article 2 of the Council Tax Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996
2. In article 2 of the Council Tax Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996( 3 ) (permitted total of benefit allowed in exercise of a discretion) for “100.1%” there shall be substituted “100.025%”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Angela Eagle
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
22nd March 2001
1992 c. 5 ; section 139(10) was substituted by section 121 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 to, the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) .
See section 176(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.
S.I. 1996/678 .