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1993 No.722
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1993
Made
15th March 1993
Laid before Parliament
22nd March 1993
Coming into force
12th April 1993
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 175(1) of, and paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 7 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 12th April 1993.
Increase of earnings limits in respect of dependent children
2. In paragraph 4 of Schedule 7(2) to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992-
(a)in sub-paragraph (4)(a) for the amount of £115 there shall be substituted the amount of £120; and
(b)in sub-paragraph (4)(b) for the amounts of £15 and £115 there shall be substituted the amounts of £16 and £120 respectively.
Revocation
3. The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Dependency) (Permitted Earnings Limits) Order 1992(3) is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Nicholas Scott
Minister of State,
Department of Social Security
15th March 1993
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
Where a disablement pension with unemployability supplement is increased in respect of a child and the beneficiary is one of two persons who are spouses residing together or an unmarried couple, paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 provides that the increase shall not be payable in respect of the first child if the other person's earnings are £115 a week or more and in respect of a further child for each complete £15 where the earnings exceed £115. This Order substitutes the amounts of £120 for the amount of £115 and £16 for the amount of £15.
Article 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this order.