This Statutory Instrument has been printed in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2002/3019 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 2379
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2003
Made
15th September 2003
Laid before Parliament
15th September 2003
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 123(1)(a), 135(1), 137(1) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it( 2 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 6th October 2003 immediately after the coming into force of regulation 29 of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002( 3 ).
Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987
2. —(1)Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987( 4 ) (applicable amounts) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In paragraph 10(1)(b)(i) (higher pensioner premium) for “paragraph 12(1)(a) or (c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 12(1)(a), (c) or (d)”( 5 ).
(3) In paragraph 11 (disability premium) in—
(a) sub-paragraph (b)(i) for “paragraph 12(1)(a), (b) or (c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 12(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d)”; and
(b) sub-paragraph (b)(ii) for “paragraph 12(1)(a) or (c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 12(1)(a), (c) or (d)”.
(4) In paragraph 12 (additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premium) in—
(a) sub-paragraph (4) for “sub-paragraph (1)(c)” in each place where that phrase appears there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (1)(c) and (d)”; and
(b) sub-paragraph (6) for “sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) and (c)(i)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) and (c)”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Maria Eagle
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
15th September 2003
1992 c. 4 . Section 137(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed”.
See sections 170 and 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5) .
S.I. 1987/1967 . The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/663 , 1995/482 and 2002/3019 .
Paragraph 12(1) is amended by S.I. 2002/3019 .