Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 619

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1990

Made

15th March 1990

Laid before Parliament

19th March 1990

Coming into force

9th April 1990

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 64(1C) of the Social Security Act 1975(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 9th April 1990.

Increase of earnings limits in respect of dependent children

2. In section 64(1B) of the Social Security Act 1975(2)-

(a)in paragraph (a) for the amount of £85 there shall be substituted the amount of £100; and

(b)in paragraph (b) for the amounts of £10 and £85 there shall be substituted the amounts of £13 and £100 respectively.

Revocation

3. The Social Security Benefit (Increases for Dependent Children) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1985(3) is hereby revoked.

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

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

15th March 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Where a disablement pension with unemployability supplement is increased in respect of a child and the beneficiary is one of two persons who are spouses residing together or an unmarried couple, section 64(1B) of the Social Security Act 1975 provides that the increase shall not be payable in respect of the first child if the other person's earnings are £85 a week or more and in respect of a further child for each complete £10 by which the earnings exceed £85. This Order substitutes the amounts of £100 for the amounts of £85 and £13 for the amount of £10.

Article 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.

(1)

1975 c. 14; section 64(1C) was inserted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48), Schedule 5, paragraph 4.

(2)

Section 64(1B) was inserted by the Health and Social Security Act 1984 Schedule 5, paragraph 4.

(3)

S.I. 1985/1570