The Social Security Amendment (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/2019
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) Regulations 2002 and shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, come into force on 14th October 2002.

(2) Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall, in relation to a claimant for income support, have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 14th October 2002 and in this paragraph the expressions “benefit week” and “claimant” shall have the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations .

(3) Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall, in relation to a claimant for a jobseeker’s allowance, have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 14th October 2002 and in this paragraph the expression “benefit week” shall have the same meaning as in regulation 1(3) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations .

(4) In these Regulations—

“the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 ;

“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 .

Section 2 Income support, jobseeker’s allowance, ...: personal allowances in respect of children and young persons

(1) In Column (2) of the table in each of the paragraphs specified in paragraph (2) below (personal allowances in respect of a child or young person) —

(a) in entry “(a)”, for the sum “£33.50” there shall be substituted the sum “ £37.00 ” ;

(b) in entry “(b)”, for the sum “£34.30” there shall be substituted the sum “ £37.80 ” .

(2) The provisions specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) above are—

(a) paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations;

(b) paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations;

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(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .