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The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance)Amendment Regulations 1990

S.I. 1990/620 · Made 15 March 1990

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SOCIAL SECURITY

Made 15th March 1990

Laid before Parliament 19th March 1990

Coming into force 9th April 1990

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by section 37(8) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975f1, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to itf2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1975 c. 14. Schedule 20 is cited for the meaning it ascribes to “Prescribe” and “Regulations”.

f2

See section 61(1)(b)and (10) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50). The definition of “regulations” was added to section 61(10) by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, paragraph 12(4).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976
  3. 3Revocation
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 9th April 1990.

2Amendment of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976

In regulation 8(1) of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976f1 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed) for the sum of £12 in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the sum of £20.

3Revocation

The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1982f1 are hereby revoked.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

15th March 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amendthe Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 (“the 1976 Regulations”).

Under section 37(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 a person is entitled to an invalid care allowance for any day on which he is engaged in caring for a severely disabled person if, among other things, he is not gainfully employed. Regulation 8(1) of the 1976 Regulations provides that a person is not to be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week unless,and is to be treated as gainfully employed on every day in a week if, his earnings in the immediately preceding week (subject to specified exceptions) have exceeded a specified sum. These Regulations increase that sum from £12 to £20.

Regulation 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of these Regulations.