Article 3 Alterations in rates or amounts of certain benefits under the 1975 Act

(1)

In this article, “Schedule 4” means Schedule 4 to the 1975 Act^f1.

(2)

The sums specified in paragraph (3) below shall be increased from and including the respective dates specified in article 5 below; and Schedule 4 shall accordingly have effect as set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

(3)

The sums mentioned in paragraph (2) above are the sums specified in Parts I, III, IV and V of Schedule 4 (contributory periodical benefits, non-contributory periodical benefits, increase of benefits for dependants and rate or amounts of industrial injuries benefits, respectively), except in Part III the sum specified for age addition.

(4)

It is hereby directed that the sums falling to be calculated under section 59B(5)^f2 of the 1975 Act (calculation of weekly rate of retirement allowance) shall be increased from a date specified in article 5 below by 7.6 per cent. of their amount apart from this Order.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Schedule 4 was amended by section 21(1) and (2) of, and Schedules 4 and 5 to, the Child Benefit Act 1975 (c. 61), section 22(2) of, and paragraphs 62 and 63 of Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), Schedule 11 to the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) and the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/43).
f2: Section 59B(5) was inserted in the 1975 Act by the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7), section 2(1) and amended by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 1, paragraph 8(5). See also section 63(1)(ee) of the Social Security Act 1986, inserted by the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7), section 2(2)(a).