Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 721

The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2001

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 721

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2001

	Made	5th March 2001
	Laid before Parliament	8th March 2001
	Coming into force	29th March 2001

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 123(1)(a), 136(3) and (5)(b), 137(1) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it[2], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.These Regulations shall be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 29th March 2001.

Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987
    2.In the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987[3] - 

(a) in regulation 26 (calculation of income and capital of students), for the words from "have effect" to the end of the regulation, there shall be substituted the words "have effect in relation to students and their partners subject to the modifications set out in Chapter VIII thereof (students)";

(b) for the title to Chapter VIII of Part V, there shall be substituted the word "STUDENTS";

(c) in Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) - 


(i) in paragraph 61(1), for the words "full-time student" there shall be substituted the word "student";

(ii) in paragraph 65(2), for the words from "as a result of" to the end of the sub-paragraph, there shall be substituted the words "as a result of the student's attendance on the course where an amount in respect of those expenses has already been disregarded pursuant to regulation 66(1) (student's income to be disregarded)".

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


Angela Eagle
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security

5th March 2001

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967) so as to change certain references in those Regulations to "full-time students" to references to "students".

These Regulations do not impose any charge on business.

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Notes:

[1] 1992 c. 4. Section 137(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word "prescribed".back

[2] See sections 170 and 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).back

[3] S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/206, 1997/65, 1998/2117 and 2000/1981.back

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