LegalizeThe Child Benefit Up-rating Order 2008
Made: 26th March 2008
Coming into force: 7th April 2008
Accordingly, the Treasury in the exercise of the powers conferred by sections 150(9) and 189(4) of the Great Britain Administration Act and by sections 132(1) and 165(4) of the Northern Ireland Administration Act 1992 and now vested in them 4, make the following Order.
Citation and Commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Child Benefit Up-rating Order 2008 and shall come into force on 7th April 2008.
Amendment of the Child Benefit (Rates) Regulations 2006
2
In regulation 2(1) of the Child Benefit (Rates) Regulations 2006 5—
- (a) in sub-paragraph (a) for “£18.10” substitute “£18.80”; and
- (b) in sub-paragraph (b) for “£12.10” substitute “£12.55”.
Signed
Dave Watts — Frank Roy — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 26th March 2008
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Order is made by the Treasury as the consequence of a review, conducted by them under section 150 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 of the general level of prices.
The amounts in this Order were last amended by the Child Benefit Up-rating Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1053). The amounts referred to in that Order are superseded by the amounts referred to in this Order.
Article 2 increases the weekly rate of child benefit prescribed in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of regulation 2(1) of the Child Benefit (Rates) Regulations 2006 from £18.10 to £18.80 and from £12.10 to £12.55.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.
Footnotes
Subsection (10A) was inserted by paragraph 50(4) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and amended by paragraph 11(3) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”) (c.21).
The functions of the Secretary of State in respect of child benefit under Part 10 of the Great Britain Administration Act which are relevant to the making of this Order were transferred to the Treasury by section 49(3) of the 2002 Act. The functions of the Department for Social Development in respect of child benefit under section 132 of the Northern Ireland Administration Act which are relevant to the making of this Order were transferred to the Treasury by section 49(4) of the 2002 Act.
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