The Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1996

Made: 28th February 1996

Laid before Parliament: 7th March 1996

Coming into force: 8th April 1996

The Secretary of State for Social Security, with the approval of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 2 of the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939[^f00001] and now vested in him[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1996 and shall come into force on 8th April 1996.

• (2) In this Scheme, the expression “the principal Scheme” means the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983.[^f00003]

Amendment of article 18 of the principal Scheme

2

In article 18 of the principal Scheme (unemployability allowances) in paragraph (2) for the amount “£2,288” there shall be substituted the amount “£2,366”.

Substitution of Schedules 3 and 4 to the principal Scheme

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For Schedules 3 and 4 to the principal Scheme (rates of pensions and allowances payable in respect of disablement and death) there shall respectively be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Scheme and numbered 3 and 4.

SCHEDULE 1 — SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN THE PRINCIPAL SCHEME

SCHEDULE 4 — RATES OF PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF DEATH

1

Pension to widow—

• (a) under article 27(1)

2

Rent allowance under article 28

3

Allowance under article 29 or 50 to an elderly surviving spouse—

• (a) if age 65 but under age 70

4

Pension under article 30 to unmarried dependant who lived as spouse

5

Pension to dependent widower under article 32

6

Allowance under article 33 in respect of each child under the age of 15—

• (i) in respect of the only, elder or eldest child

7

Pension under article 34(1) to a motherless or fatherless child under the age of 15—

• (i) in respect of the only, elder or eldest child

8

Pension or allowance under article 35(3) to or in respect of a child over the age of 15—

• (a) where the child has attained the age of 18 and is incapable of self-support by reasons of an infirmity which arose before he attained the age of 15

9

Education allowance under article 36

10

Pensions to parents—

• (a) minimum rate under article 38(4)

11

Pensions to other dependants—

• (a) for each juvenile dependant under article 39(4)

Signed

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

MacKay of Ardbrecknish — Minister of State, — Department of Social Security — 27th February 1996

We approve,

Simon Burns — Liam Fox — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 28th February 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme further amends the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 (S.I. 1983/686) (“the principal Scheme”) which makes provision for the payment of pensions and allowances to or in respect of civilians who were killed or injured during the 1939-45 World War by increasing the amounts of allowances, pensions and awards payable under that Scheme and also increasing the amounts of income to be disregarded for the purposes of certain parts of the Scheme.

This Scheme does not impose any costs on business.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1939 c. 82.

[^f00002]: See Transfer of Functions (Ministry of Pensions) Order 1953 (S.I. 1953/1198) article 2; Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 (c. 20) section 2: Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699) article 2; Transfer of Functions (Health and Social Security) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1843) article 3.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1983/686, as amended by S.I. 1983/1164, 1540, 1984/1289, 1985/1313, 1986/628, 1987/191, 1988/367, 2260, 1989/415, 1990/535, 1300, 1991/708, 1992/702, 3226, 1993/480, 1994/715, 2021 and 1995/445.