The Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1990

Made: 5th March 1990

Laid before Parliament: 9th March 1990

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for Social Security, with the approval of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 2 of the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939[^f00001] and now vested in him[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes te following Scheme:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1990 and shall come into force for the purposes of this article and article 2 on 1st April 1990 and for all other purposes on 9th April 1990.

• (2) In this Scheme the expression “the principal Scheme” means the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983[^f00003].

Amendment of article 2 of the principal Scheme

2

In paragraph (19) of article 2 of the principal Scheme (meaning of “public funds”) after the words “(Scotland) Act 1987(a),” there shall be inserted the words “moneys provided under the Local Government Finance Act 1988(b),”[^f00004].

Amendment of article 18 of the principal Scheme

3

In article 18 of the principal Scheme (unemployability allowances) in paragraph (2) for the amount “£1,482” there shall be substituted the amount “£1,820”.

Substitution of Schedules 3 and 4 to the principal Scheme

4

For Schedules 3 and 4 to the principal Scheme (rates of pensions and allowances payable in respect of disablement and death) there shall respectively be substituted the Schedules set out in the Schedule hereto and numbered 3 and 4.

SCHEDULE — Schedules to be substituted in the principal Scheme

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Henley — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Social Security — 1st March 1990.

We approve,

Stephen Dorrell — John M Taylor — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 5th March 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme further amends the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 (“the principal Scheme”) which makes provision for the payment of pensions and allowances to or in respect of civilians who were killed or injured in the 1939-45 War.

This Scheme raises the maximum amount of annual earnings which may be received by a disabled person while he is deemed to be unemployable for the purposes of un(employability allowances under article 18 of the principal Scheme, and varies the rates of pensions and allowances in respect of disablement and death in the 1939-45 War (articles 3 and 4, and the Schedule).

It also makes amendments (article 2) consequential upon the abolition in England and Wales from 1st April 1990 of domestic rates and their replacement by community charge.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1939 c. 82

[^f00002]: See Transfer of Functions (Ministry of Pensions) Order 1953 (S.I. 1953/1198), article 2; Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 (c. 20), section 2; Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), article 2.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1983/686, as amended by S.I. 1983/1164, 1540, 1984/1289, 1675, 1985/1313, 1986/628, 1987/191, 1988/367, 2260, and 1989/415

[^f00004]: 1988 c. 41. * Maximum.