Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 607
Social Security
The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
Made
26th April 2017
Laid before Parliament
27th April 2017
Coming into force
1st June 2017
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 142(2)(b), and 175(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992( 1 ) and sections 138(2)(b), 143(1) and 171(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992( 2 ), and now exercisable by them( 3 ), make the following Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into force on the 1st June 2017.
Amendment of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006
2. —(1)The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006( 4 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(3) (interpretation)( 5 ), in the definition of “approved training”, for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—
“ (d) in relation to Northern Ireland, known as “PEACE IV Children and Young People 2.1” or “Training for Success” ” .
Guto Bebb
Andrew Griffiths
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
26th April 2017
1992 c. 4 . Section 142 was substituted by section 1(2) of the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6) . Section 175(1) was amended by the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc. ) Act 1999 (c. 2) , Schedule 3, paragraph 29(2).
1992 c. 7 . Section 138 was substituted by section 2(2) of the Child Benefit Act 2005. Section 171(1) was amended by the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) , Schedule 4, paragraph 5.
The powers of the Secretary of State under section 142 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 were transferred to the Treasury by section 49(1)(b) of the Tax Credits Act 2002. The powers of the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland under section 138 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 were transferred to the Treasury by section 49(2)(b) of the Tax Credits Act 2002.
S.I. 2006/223 ; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2014/1231 , S.I. 2015/1512 .
The definition of “approved training” in regulation 1(3) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006 contains reference to “arrangements made by the Government”, which in relation to Northern Ireland are defined as arrangements made by the Department for Employment and Learning. This department was dissolved by section 1(10) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5) , and the functions relating to the making of these arrangements were transferred to the newly created Department for the Economy.