OpenLegislation

Paragraph 24 I1

England, Wales and Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Any payment made to the claimant in respect of a person who is a member of his family—

(a)

in accordance with regulations made pursuant to section 57A of the Adoption Act 1976f1 (permitted allowances) or with a scheme approved by the Secretary of State under section 51 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978f2 (schemes for payments of allowances to adopters);

(b)

which is a payment made by a local authority, in pursuance of section 15(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989f3 (local authority contribution to a child’s maintenance where the child is living with a person as a result of a residence order) or as the case may be, section 50 of the Children Act 1975f4 (payment towards maintenance of children),

to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2)

In the case of a child or young person—

(a)

to whom regulation 27(2) applies (capital in excess of £3,000), the whole payment;

(b)

to whom that regulation does not apply, so much of the weekly amount of the payment as exceeds the amount included under Schedule 1 in the calculation of the claimant’s applicable amount for that child or young person by way of the personal allowance and disabled child premium, if any.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 4 para. 24 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)

Footnotes

f1

1976 c. 36; section 57A was inserted by paragraph 25 of Schedule 10 to the Children Act 1989 (c. 41).

f2

1978 c. 28.

f3

1989 c. 41.

f4

1975 c. 72.