The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/1950
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2002.

(2) This regulation and regulation 2 shall come into force on 2nd September 2002 and regulation 3 shall come into force in relation to a particular case on the day on which section 43 of the Child Support Act 1991 as substituted by section 21 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (recovery of child support maintenance by deduction from benefit) comes into force for the purposes of that type of case.

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 28 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

In the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 , regulation 28 (fractional amounts of benefit) shall be renumbered paragraph (1) of regulation 28 and—

(a) at the beginning of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted “Subject to paragraph (2),”; and

(b) after paragraph (1) there shall be added—

(2) Where the amount of any maternity allowance payable would, but for this regulation, include a fraction of a penny, that fraction shall be treated as a penny.

Section 3 Amendment of Schedule 9B to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987

In the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 , in Schedule 9B (deductions from benefit in respect of child support maintenance and payment to persons with care)—

(a) in paragraph 1 (interpretation) in the definition of “maintenance”, before the word “means”, there shall be inserted the words “, except in paragraph 3,”; and

(b) in paragraph 3 (arrears), after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

(3) In sub-paragraph (1) “maintenance” means child support maintenance as defined by section 3(6) of the Act—

(a) before the amendment of the definition of such maintenance by section 1(2)(a) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 ;

(b) after the amendment of the definition; or

(c) both before and after the amendment of the definition,

and includes maintenance payable at a transitional rate in accordance with regulations made under section 29(3)(a) of that Act.