Regulation 31 Transitional provisions

(1)

These Regulations shall apply to any question relating to the repayment or recoverability of family income supplement and supplementary benefit as though the definition of “benefit” in regulation 1(2) included references to both those benefits and as though any reference in Part VIII to income support was a reference to income support and supplementary benefit.

(2)

Anything done or begun under the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1987 or Part IV of the Supplementary Benefit (Trade Disputes and Recovery from Earnings) Regulations 1980 M1 shall be deemed to have been done or, as the case may be, continued under the corresponding provisions of these Regulations.

(3)

Where this regulation applies—

(a)

regulation 3(b)(ii) shall have effect as though for the words “the same benefit” there were substituted the words “ income support ” if the interim payment was of supplementary benefit and “family credit” if the interim payment was of family income supplement;

(b)

regulation 13(b) shall have effect as though for the words “income support” there were substituted the words “ supplementary benefit ”.

(4)

In this Part—

“family income supplement” means benefit under the Family Income Supplements Act 1970 M2;
“supplementary benefit” means benefit under Part I of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 M3.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 1980/1641.
M2: 1970 c. 55.
M3: 1976 c. 71.