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SOCIAL SECURITY

Made 8th September 1998

Laid before Parliament 10th September 1998

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 3(2), (3) and (5)^f1, 4(6)^f2, 122(1) and 175(1) to (3) of, and paragraph 5(a)^f3 of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992^f4, section 50(4) of the Social Security Act 1998 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make regulations 2(1), 5(2) to (4), 6, 9 and 10 of these Regulations should, in so far as they relate to matters which are not otherwise exempt from the requirement of referral to the Committee by virtue of section 173(5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992^f5, not be referred to it^f6, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 3(5) was inserted by section 49 of the Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14).
f2: Section 4(6) was inserted by section 50(2) of the Social Security Act 1998.
f3: Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 was substituted by paragraph 77(6) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Act 1998.
f4: 1992 c. 4. Section 122(1) is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribe”.
f5: 1992 c. 5.
f6: See section 173(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.