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Social Security Benefits Act 1975
1975 CHAPTER 11
An Act to make further provision with respect to basic scheme benefits and benefits in respect of industrial injuries and diseases; to increase family allowances and amend section 8 of the Family Allowances Act 1965, to amend Parts I and III of Schedule 2 to the Supplementary Benefit Act 1966; and for purposes connected with those matters.
[13th March 1975]
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(1)–(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
(7)–(10). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 1–7, 8(1)–(5) repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I
F3S. 8(6) repealed by S.I. 1978/1040 (N.I. 10), Sch. 2 Pt. II
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GeneralU.K.
12 Financial provisions.U.K.
(1)There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to this Act in the sums so payable under any other Act.
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8
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13 Northern Ireland.U.K.
Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect for adapting the provisions of this Act there mentioned in their application to Northern Ireland.
14 Short title, citation, interpretation, commencement and repeals.U.K.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Social Security Benefits Act 1975.
(2)This Act may be cited with the Supplementary Benefit Acts 1966 to 1973 as the Supplementary Benefit Acts 1966 to 1975, . . . F9
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10
(4)Except where the context otherwise requires, references in this Act to any enactment are references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.
(5)Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the commencement of this Act and with respect to the transitional matters dealt with in that Schedule.
(6)The enactments and Order mentioned in Schedule 6 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
Textual Amendments
F9Words repealed by Child Benefit Act 1975 (c. 61), s. 21(4), Sch. 5 Pt. I and S.I. 1975/1504 (N.I. 16), art. 23(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I
F10Ss. 12(2), 14(3) repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of s. 14(6), Sch. 6 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
SCHEDULES
F11F11SCHEDULES 1, 2.U.K.
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F12F12SCHEDULE 3U.K.
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Section 13.
SCHEDULE 4U.K. Application to Northern Ireland
1U.K.In sections . . . F13, 9, . . . F14and 14 and Schedules . . . F14, 3 and 5, as they apply to Northern Ireland, there shall be made the adaptations provided for by this Schedule.
Textual Amendments
F13Word repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I
F14Words repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I and S.I. 1977/2156 (N.I. 27), Sch. 7 Pt. I
2U.K.Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, for any such reference as is specified in column 1 of the Table set out below there shall be substituted the reference specified in column 2.
Table
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F15Entries repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I and S.I. 1977/2156 (N.I. 27), Sch. 7 Pt. I
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4U.K.In section 14 “enactment” includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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F17Sch. 4 para. 5 repealed by S.I. 1977/2156 (N.I. 27), Sch. 7 Pt. I
Section 14(5).
SCHEDULE 5U.K. Commencement and Transitional Provisions
Part IU.K. Commencement
1(1)The provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date or dates as the Secretary of State may by order appoint for those provisions or any of them.U.K.
(2)Different dates may be appointed under this paragraph for different purposes of those provisions or for the same purposes in relation to different cases or classes of case; and if that is done, or different dates are appointed for different provisions, then—
(a)an order under this paragraph may contain such incidental or supplemental provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient as respects the period, or any part of the period, when any provisions of this Act are to have a partial operation only and, in particular, may contain provisions modifying and supplementing, in relation to the period to which the order is to apply, any provisions of this Act or of any Act amended thereby; and
(b)any provision made in pursuance of paragraph (a) above may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order of the Secretary of State.
(3)The power to make an order under this paragraph shall be exercisable by statutory instrument; and any statutory instrument containing any such order shall be laid before Parliament after being made.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Para. 1 extended by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), Sch. 3, Pt. III, para. 27
C3Power of appointment conferred by para. 1 as originally enacted fully exercised.
Part IIU.K.
2–4U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18
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5, 6.U.K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F19
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F19Sch. 5 paras. 5, 6 repealed by Child Benefit Act 1975 (c. 61), s. 21(4), Sch. 5 Pt. I and S.I. 1975/1504 (N.I. 16), Sch. 5 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4The text of s. 14(6), Sch. 6 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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