Introductory text

SOCIAL SECURITY

Made 9th December 2003

Laid before Parliament 16th December 2003

Coming into force 6th January 2004

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 5(1)(j), 111A(1A), (1B), (1D) and (1E), 112(1A) to (1D), 189(1), (4) and (6) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992^f1 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it^f2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1992 c. 5; section 111A was inserted by the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47), section 13; subsections (1A) to (1G) of section 111A were inserted, and subsections (1A) to (1D) of section 112 were substituted, by the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (c. 11), section 16; there are amendments to section 189(1), (4) and (6) which are not relevant to these Regulations; section 191 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribe”.
f2: See the Social Security Administration Act 1992, section 173(1)(b).