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Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967

1967 c. 90 · Enacted 20 December 1967 · Extends to United Kingdom

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An Act to increase family allowances under the Family Allowances Act 1965 and make related adjustments of certain benefits under the National Insurance Act 1965 or the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965, to make further provision as to the time at which a person ceases to be a child within the meaning of those Acts, and for purposes connected therewith.

[20th December 1967]I1

Annotations to the whole text

Commencement

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Act partly in force at Royal Assent; all provisions in force so far as unrepealed at 1.2.1991.

Contents

  1. 1†Increase of family allowances and related amendments.
  2. 2Section 2
  3. 3Section 3
  4. 4Citation and construction.
  5. Schedule 1
  6. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  7. II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  8. Schedule 2Schedule 2
  9. Schedule 3: Commencement and Transitory Provisions
  10. 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
  11. 2Paragraph 2 Repealed
  12. 3Paragraph 3 Repealed
  13. Set-off of overpayments of benefit
  14. 4Paragraph 4
  15. 5Paragraph 5
  16. 6, 7Paragraph 6, 7 Repealed
  17. Interpretation
  18. 8Paragraph 8

1†Increase of family allowances and related amendments.C2

(1)

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(2)

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(3)

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(4)

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C1(5)

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(6)

Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the commencement of subsections (2) to (5) above and with respect to the transitory matters dealt with in that Schedule.

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1), (2)

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C1(3)

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(1)

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C1(2)

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4Citation and construction.

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967, and—

(a)

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(b)

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(2)

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Schedule 2F1

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1

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2

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3

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4

Where a beneficiary receives in respect of any persons as being, or as falling to be treated as, children of his family an amount of benefit which by reason of section 1 of this Act is not properly payable, but would have been properly payable according to the rates in force at the passing of this Act or at that of the M1National Insurance Act 1967, and he receives it for a period for which there are payable to him or anyone else in respect of those persons or any of them allowances under the M2Family Allowances Act 1965 at a rate which would not have been payable but for this Act, then the amount of benefit overpaid and not required to be repaid shall be treated as properly paid, but up to that amount any arrears of allowances payable under the Family Allowances Act 1965 for that period in respect of those persons shall be withheld.

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(1)

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(2)

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6, 7

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In this Schedule “benefit” means benefit under the National Insurance Act 1965 or the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965, and “beneficiary” has a corresponding meaning.