The Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Amendment Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1446
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 5th September 1988.

Section 2 Amendment of the meaning of “training allowance”

In regulation 2(1) of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 , in the definition of “training allowance”, for the words “but it does not include an allowance paid by any Government department to or in respect of a person by reason of the fact that he is following a course of full-time education or is training as a teacher”, there shall be substituted the following words —

but it does not include —

(a) an allowance paid by any Government department to or in respect of a person by reason of the fact that he is following a course of full-time education or is training as a teacher; or

(b) a payment made by or on behalf of the Secretary of State to any person by way of training premium or training bonus in consequence of that person’s use of facilities for training provided in pursuance of arrangements made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 .