The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1991

Made: 7th March 1991

Laid before Parliament: 14th March 1991

Coming into force: 8th April 1991

The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20(1)(a), 22(1) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986[^f00001] and section 166(1) to (3A) of the Social Security Act 1975[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee[^f00003] that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1991 and shall, subject to paragraph (2) below, come into force on 8th April 1991 immediately after the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1991[^f00004] comes into force.

• (2) These Regulations shall not apply in relation to a particular claimant until the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 8th April 1991 and for this purpose the expressions “claimant” and “benefit week” have the same meanings as in the General Regulations.

• (3) In these Regulations “the General Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987[^f00005].

Amendment of Schedule 4 to the General Regulations

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In Schedule 4 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes) in paragraph 11(1) for the words “any excess up to £23.00” there shall be substituted the following—

• any excess up to— in the case of a residential care home, £23.00; in the case of a nursing home, £33.00.

Signed

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

Nicholas Scott — Minister of State, — Department of Social Security — 7th March 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 by increasing from £23 to £33 the extra sum applicable to persons in nursing homes in the Greater London area to meet charges in excess of the maximum amount for such homes.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 50; section 84(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meanings assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”.

[^f00002]: 1975 c. 14; sub-section (1A) was inserted by section 62(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 and section 166(1) to (3A) is applied by section 83(1) of that Act.

[^f00003]: Seethe Social Security Act 1986, section 61 (1)(b) and (10). The Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8 added a definition of “regulations” to section 61(10) of the Social Security Act 1986.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1991/503.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instrument is S.1. 1989/43.