The Social Fund (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1788
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 24th September 1990.

(2) In these Regulations, “ the Act ” means the Social Security Act 1986.

Section 2 Condition to be satisfied before payment of a social fund award

(1) Before a payment of an award out of the social fund under section 32(2)(b) of the Act (payment to meet needs other than in prescribed circumstances) is made for a category of need which is specified in directions given by the Secretary of State to be repayable , the person by or on behalf of whom the application was made shall notify the Secretary of State in writing of his agreement to the terms and conditions of which he has been notified by the Secretary of State in accordance with subsection (4A) of section 33 of the Act within 14 days of the date on which that notification was issued to that person.

(2) The time specified in paragraph (1) above may be extended by the Secretary of State for special reasons, even though the time so specified may already have expired.

Section 3 Circumstances in which an award is to be extinguished

An award of a payment out of the social fund under section 32(2)(b) of the Act shall be extinguished where—

(a) the person by or on behalf of whom the application was made fails to satisfy the condition in regulation 2(1) above, within the time there specified or as extended under regulation 2(2), as the case may be; or

(b) the payment has been made to the person by or on behalf of whom the application was made or to a third party but the person or the third party, as the case may be, has failed to present for payment the instrument of payment within 12 months of its issue.

Section 4 Amendment of the Social Fund (Applications) Regulations 1988

After regulation 2 of the Social Fund (Applications) Regulations 1988 there shall be added the following regulation–

Time at which an application is to be treated as made

(3) The time at which an application to which regulation 2 above applies is to be treated as made shall be–

(a) in the case of an application which meets the requirements of regulation 2(1), the date on which it is received in an appropriate office;

(b) in the case of an application which does not meet the requirements of regulation 2(1), but where the person complies with the requirements of the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 2(5), the date on which the application was received in an appropriate office in the first instance.