# The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1989, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make various amendments to the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 (“the principal Regulations”).
Regulation 2 amends in regulation 4A of the principal Regulations the description of certain statutory provisions. Regulation 3 adds a reference to widowed mother’s allowance to the list of benefits for which a person, entitled to child benefit, is treated in some circumstances as not so entitled for the purposes of determining entitlement to those benefits.
Regulation 4 amends the reference in regulation 8(7) of the principal Regulations. Regulation 5 provides for the apportionment of payments by way of occupational pension made otherwise than weekly.
Regulation 6 amends regulation 10(2)(e) to provide that a dependency increase may be payable to a beneficiary where the dependant is employed in caring for the beneficiary’s child but is not residing with him.
Regulation 7 provides for the revocation of regulation 10(2)(f) of the principal Regulations and for a consequential revocation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/523/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-regulations-1989/note
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