Explanatory note

These Regulations are made under the Social Security Act 1986 (“the 1986 Act”) Schedule 3, paragraph 12, or are otherwise consequential upon that enactment. As they are made before the end of a period of 12 months from the commencement of that provision they are exempted by section 61(5)(b) of the 1986 Act from reference to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and are made without being so referred.

Regulation 2 provides for the payment of a lump sum of £350 to persons who immediately before 11th April 1988 were entitled to dependency increases under section 71(2), 72 (other than 72(5)) or 73 of the Social Security Act 1975.

Regulation 3 contains savings for beneficiaries who were entitled to a dependency increase under section 71, 72 or 73 of the Social Security Act 1975 which was being paid, as at 10th April 1988, by means of a book of benefit orders.