Regulation 5 Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977

in regulation 6 (circumstances in which a person who is not entitled to child benefit is to be treated as if he were so entitled), in paragraph (2) after the words “in respect of any child” there shall be inserted the word “ordinarily”;

in regulation 12 (prescribed circumstances for purposes of section 49 of the Social Security Act 1975), there shall be added at the end of paragraph (1) the words “except that section 47(1) shall not apply to a person over pensionable age entitled to non-contributory invalidity pension”.