Statutory Instruments
2006 No. 3152
pensions
The War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 2006
Made
27th November 2006
Laid before Parliament
1st December 2006
Coming into force
1st January 2007
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st January 2007.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the War Pensions Committees Regulations 2000( 3 ).
Amendments to the principal Regulations
2. —(1) The Table in regulation 6 shall be amended as follows—
(a) in column 1 the word “Stirling” shall be deleted;
(b) in column 1 after the words “East Renfrewshire” there shall be inserted “,Stirling”.
(2)Regulation 8 shall be amended as follows—
(a) For paragraph (1)(c) there shall be substituted—
“ (c) support the Veterans Agency by monitoring its welfare service, raising awareness of the service it provides and liaising with other organisations with a view to ensuring that the welfare needs of pensioners, surviving spouses, surviving civil partners and their dependants are suitably addressed; and ” .
(b) In paragraph (1)(d) for the words “War Pensions Agency” there shall be substituted “Veterans Agency”.
(3) For the table in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the table set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Defence
Derek Twigg
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Defence
Date 27th November 2006
SCHEDULE 1 TABLE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE TABLE SET OUT IN SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS
“ Table
COMMITTEES IN ENGLAND
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Group Comprising | Name of Committee |
| The counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk; and the non-metropolitan districts of Luton, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock. | Eastern War Pensions Committee. |
| Greater London. | London War Pensions Committee. |
| The counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire; and the non-metropolitan districts of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Rutland. | East Midlands War Pensions Committee. |
| The counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire; and the metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton; and the non-metropolitan districts of Herefordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Telford and Wrekin. | West Midlands War Pensions Committee. |
| The counties of Durham and Northumberland; the metropolitan districts of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland; and the non-metropolitan districts of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees. | North East War Pensions Committee. |
| The counties of Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire; the metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, St Helens, Salford, Sefton, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan and Wirral; and the non-metropolitan districts of Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Halton and Warrington. | North West War Pensions Committee. |
| The counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex; and the non-metropolitan districts of Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, the Medway Towns, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham. | South East War Pensions Committee. |
| The counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire; the non-metropolitan districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Bristol, North Somerset, Plymouth, Poole, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and Torbay; and the Isles of Scilly. | South West War Pensions Committee. |
| The county of North Yorkshire; the metropolitan districts of Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Doncaster, Kirklees, Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield and Wakefield; and the non-metropolitan districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and York. | Yorkshire and Humber War Pensions Committee. ” |
1992 c.4 .
S.I. 2000/3180 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.