The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1977

• Citation: S.I. 1977/620
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, interpretation and commencement

These regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment Regulations 1977, shall be read as one with the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 (hereinafter referred to as “ the principal regulations ”) and shall come into operation on 4th April 1977.

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal regulations

In regulation 5 of the principal regulations (contributions towards the cost of providing for a child) after paragraph (4) there shall be added the following paragraph:—

(5) Except in a case to which regulation 15 (preservation of entitlement to benefit in payment before 4th April 1977 for a child dependant) or regulation 13A of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975, as amended (modification of the Act in relation to title to benefit for beneficiary's child dependants) applies, paragraph (b) of section 43(2) and paragraph (b) of section 65(2) of the Act (contributions mentioned in those paragraphs to be over and above those required for the purposes of section 3(1)(b) of the Child Benefit Act) shall not apply in a case where neither the beneficiary nor his spouse (if he has a spouse and his spouse is residing with him) is in fact entitled to child benefit in respect of the child in question.