Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 316

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1993

Made

22nd February 1993

Laid before Parliament

1st March 1993

Coming into force

12th April 1993

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 70(8), 122(1), 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1), 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 it(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 12th April 1993.

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

2. In regulation 8(1) of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976(3) (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed), for the sum of "£40" in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted the sum of "£50".

Revocation

3. Regulation 3 of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1992(4) is hereby revoked.

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

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

22nd February 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 ("the 1976 Regulations").

Regulation 2 increases, from £40 to £50, the amount specified in regulation 8(1) of the 1976 Regulations so that a person shall not be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week unless his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded £50.

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

(1)

1992 c. 4. Section 122(1) is cited for the meaning it ascribes to the word "prescribe"

(2)

See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

(3)

S.I. 1976/409, to which the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1992/470.

(4)

S.I. 1992/470.