The War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/3152
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st January 2007.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the War Pensions Committees Regulations 2000 .

Section 2 Amendments to the principal Regulations

(1) The Table in regulation 6 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in column 1 the word “Stirling” shall be deleted;

(b) in column 1 after the words “East Renfrewshire” there shall be inserted “,Stirling”.

(2) Regulation 8 shall be amended as follows—

(a) For paragraph (1)(c) there shall be substituted—

(c) support the Veterans Agency by monitoring its welfare service, raising awareness of the service it provides and liaising with other organisations with a view to ensuring that the welfare needs of pensioners, surviving spouses, surviving civil partners and their dependants are suitably addressed; and

(b) In paragraph (1)(d) for the words “War Pensions Agency” there shall be substituted “Veterans Agency”.

(3) For the table in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the table set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.