The Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1998

Made: 10th February 1998

Laid before Parliament: 18th February 1998

Coming into force: 6th April 1998

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 1939¹ and now vested in her²and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1998 and shall come into force on 6th April 1998.

• (2) In this Scheme, the expression “the principal Scheme” means the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983³.

Amendment of article 18 of the principal Scheme

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In article 18 of the principal Scheme (unemployability allowances) in paragraph (2) for the amount “£2,418” there shall be substituted the amount “£2,496”.

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 Schedules set out in the Schedule to this Scheme and numbered 3 and 4.

SCHEDULE — SCHEDULES TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN THE PRINCIPAL SCHEME

Signed

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

Patricia Hollis — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Social Security — 2nd February 1998

We approve,

Jim Dowd — John McFall — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 10th February 1998

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.

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