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The War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 1995

S.I. 1995/3119 · Made 4 December 1995

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PENSIONS

Made 4th December 1995

Laid before Parliament 8th December 1995

Coming into force 1st January 1996

The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of powers conferred by sections 25(1), 29(1) and 30(1) of the Social Security Act 1989f1 and section 189(4) and (5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992f2 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1989 c. 24; section 30(1) is cited because of the meaning which it ascribes to “prescribe”. Section 25 extends to Northern Ireland by virtue of section 33(6).

f2

1992 c. 5; subsections (4) and (5) of section 189 respectively re-enact subsections (1) and (2) of section 166 of the Social Security Act 1975. Those subsections were applied to section 25 of the 1989 Act by section 29 of the 1989 Act.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of regulation 1 of the Principal Regulations
  3. 3Substitution of regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations
  4. 4Amendment of regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations
  5. 5Substitution of new Schedule 1 and insertion of Schedule 1A in the Principal Regulations
  6. Signature
  7. Schedule 1SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS
  8. Schedule 2SCHEDULE TO BE INSERTED AS SCHEDULE 1A TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS
  9. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st January 1996.

(2)

In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the War Pensions Committees Regulations 1990f1.

2Amendment of regulation 1 of the Principal Regulations

In paragraph (2) of regulation 1 of the Principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a)

for the definition of “area” there shall be substituted the following definition—

  • ““area” in relation to each Committee means the places specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite the name of the Committee;”;

(b)

after the definition of “Committee” there shall be inserted the following definition—

  • ““local authority” means, in relation to a War Pensions Committee—

    1. (a)

      in England, the council of a county, district or London borough, the Council of the Isles of Scilly, the Common Council of the City of London, or a shadow authority, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994f1 but excludes a council listed in Schedule 1A (excepted authorities);

    2. (b)

      in Scotland—

      1. (i)

        in the period prior to 1st April 1996, a council in respect of which an ordinary election of councillors took place on 6th April 1995 or an islands council;

      2. (ii)

        in any period from and including 1st April 1996 a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994f2;

    3. (c)

      in Wales, a new principal council within the meaning of section 21 of the Local Government Act 1972 as substituted by section 2 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994f3;”.

3Substitution of regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations

For regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations (establishment of War Pensions Committees) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Establishment of War Pensions Committees

2
(1)

Each of the areas specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall have a War Pensions Committee named in accordance with the corresponding entry in column 1 of that Schedule.

(2)

In the case of each of the War Pensions Committees established for North and West Wales and for South Wales there appears below its name in English in column 1 of Schedule 1 its name in Welsh and either its Welsh or English name may be used for any purpose.”.

4Amendment of regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations

For sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (3) of regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations (membership of Committee (except Northern Ireland War Pensions Committee)) there shall be substituted—

“(d)

four members each of whom has been nominated by a local authority exercising functions in any part of the area for which the Committee is appointed.”.

5Substitution of new Schedule 1 and insertion of Schedule 1A in the Principal Regulations

(1)

For Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out at Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(2)

After Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations (as substituted by paragraph (1) of this regulation) there shall be inserted as Schedule 1A the Schedule set out at Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

MacKay of Ardbrecknish

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

4th December 1995

Schedule 1SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

“SCHEDULE 1

WAR PENSIONS COMMITTEES AND THEIR AREAS

Regulation 2

Name of War Pensions CommitteeArea for which War Pensions Committee Established
Central Scotland War Pensions CommitteeAngus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannan, Dumbarton and Clydebank, the City of Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, the City of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Perthshire and Kinross and Stirling.
Central Southern England War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Surrey.
Chilterns War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
Cumbria and Lancaster War Pensions CommitteeThe county of Cumbria and the City of Lancaster.
Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.
East Anglian War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Essex War Pensions CommitteeThe county of Essex and the London boroughs of Barking, Havering and Redbridge.
Greater Manchester and Macclesfield War Pensions CommitteeThe county of Greater Manchester, other than the metropolitan districts of Bolton and Wigan together with (in the county of Cheshire) the borough of Macclesfield.
Kent War Pensions CommitteeThe county of Kent.
Lancashire War Pensions CommitteeThe metropolitan districts of Bolton, Knowsley, Saint Helens, Sefton and Wigan and the county of Lancashire other than the City of Lancaster.
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
Liverpool, the Wirral and Cheshire War Pensions CommitteeThe county of Cheshire other than the borough of Macclesfield, the City of Liverpool and the metropolitan borough of Wirral.
London North War Pensions CommitteeThe London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
London South War Pensions CommitteeThe London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth, the Royal Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and of Kingston upon Thames and the Cities of London and Westminster.

North and West Wales War Pensions Committee

Pwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel Gogledd a Gorllewin Cymru

The counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys and the county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham.
North of Scotland War Pensions CommitteeThe City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
North Yorkshire and the Tees War Pensions CommitteeThe county of North Yorkshiref1 and the boroughs of Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Langbaurgh-on-Teesf2 and Stockton-on-Tees.
Northern Ireland War Pensions CommitteeNorthern Ireland.
Northumbria War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
South East Scotland War Pensions CommitteeThe Borders, the City of Edinburgh, Fife, Falkirk, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian.

South Wales War Pensions Committee

Pwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel De Cymru

The counties of Cardiff, Monmouthshire, and Swansea and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil; Neath and Port Talbot; Newport; Rhondda, Cynon, Taff; Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan.
South West England War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the Isles of Scilly.
South West Midlands War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire.
South West Scotland War Pensions CommitteeEast Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Inverclyde, South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.
South Yorkshire and the Humber War Pensions CommitteeThe City of Kingston upon Hull, the districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshiref3, the metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham and the City of Sheffield.
Sussex War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of East and West Sussex.
West Midlands, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire War Pensions CommitteeThe counties of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, the Cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the district of Solihull.
West of England War Pensions CommitteeThe districts of Bath and North East Somersetf4, the City of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Woodspring and the counties of Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
West Yorkshire War Pensions CommitteeThe Cities of Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield, the borough of Kirklees and the district of Calderdale.

”

Schedule 2SCHEDULE TO BE INSERTED AS SCHEDULE 1A TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

“SCHEDULE 1A

EXCEPTED AUTHORITIES

Regulation 2

  • Avon County Council

  • Bath City Council

  • Beverley Borough Council

  • Boothferry Borough Council

  • Cleethorpes Borough Council

  • Cleveland County Council

  • East Yorkshire Borough Council

  • Glanford Borough Council

  • Great Grimsby Borough Council

  • Holderness Borough Council

  • Humberside County Council

  • Kingswood Borough Council

  • Northavon District Council

  • Scunthorpe Borough Council

  • Wandsdyke District Council

  • York City Council”

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the War Pensions Committees Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1349) with effect from 1st January 1996 (when new appointments fall to be made to the Committees) so that the areas for which the Committees are established reflect the structure of local government as it will exist on 1st April 1996. The Regulations also permit the two Welsh War Pensions Committees to be known by Welsh names, and provide such names for them.

These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.