Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill

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Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill

This is the text of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 1st December 1999.

EXPLANATORY NOTES
Explanatory Notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department of Social Security, will be published separately as HC Bill 9- EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Mr Secretary Darling has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill are compatible with the Convention rights.

Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES

PART I

CHILD SUPPORT

Maintenance calculations and interim and default maintenance decisions

Clause

1. Maintenance calculations and terminology.

2. Applications under section 4 of the Child Support Act 1991.

3. Applications by persons claiming or receiving benefit.

4. Default and interim maintenance decisions.

Applications for a variation

5. Departure from usual rules for calculating maintenance.

6. Applications for a variation: further provisions.

7. Variations: revision and supersession.

Revision and supersession of decisions

8. Revision of decisions.

9. Decisions superseding earlier decisions.

Appeals

10. Appeals to appeal tribunals.

Information

11. Information required by Secretary of State.

12. Information-offences.

13. Inspectors.

Parentage

14. Presumption of parentage in child support cases.

Disqualification from driving

15. Disqualification from driving.

16. Civil Imprisonment: Scotland

Financial penalties

17. Financial penalties.

18. Reduced benefit decisions.

Miscellaneous

19. Voluntary payments.

20. Recovery of arrears by deduction from benefit.

21. Jurisdiction.

22. Abolition of child maintenance bonus.

23. Periodical reviews.

24. Regulations.

25. Amendments.

26. Temporary compensation payment scheme.

27. Interpretation, transitional provisions, savings, etc.

PART II

PENSIONS

CHAPTER I

STATE PENSIONS

State second pension

28. Earnings from which pension derived.

29. Calculation.

30. Revaluation.

31. Supplementary.

Contribution conditions

32. Home responsibilities protection.

CHAPTER II

OCCUPATIONAL AND PERSONAL PENSION SCHEMES

Selection of trustees and of directors of corporate trustees

33. Member-nominated trustees.

34. Corporate trustees.

35. Employer's proposals for selection of trustees or directors.

36. Non-compliance in relation to arrangements or proposals.

Winding-up of schemes

37. Information to be given to the Authority.

38. Modification of scheme to secure winding-up.

39. Reports about winding-up.

40. Directions for facilitating winding-up.

Other provisions

41. Information for members of schemes etc.

42. Investigations by the Ombudsman.

43. Miscellaneous amendments and alternative to anti-franking rules.

CHAPTER III

WAR PENSIONS

44. Rights of appeal.

45. Time limit for appeals.

46. Matters relevant on appeal to Pensions Appeal Tribunal.

47. Constitution and procedure of Pensions Appeal Tribunals.

48. Composition of central advisory committee.

PART III

SOCIAL SECURITY

Loss of benefit

49. Loss of benefit for breach of community order.

50. Loss of joint-claim jobseeker's allowance.

51. Information provision.

52. Loss of benefit regulations.

53. Loss of benefit: Scotland.

54. Insertion of references to the loss of benefit provisions.

Investigation powers

55. Investigation powers.

Housing benefit

56. Recovery of benefit.

PART IV

NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS

57. Contributions in respect of benefits in kind: Great Britain.

58. Collection etc. of NICs: Great Britain.

59. Contributions in respect of benefits in kind: Northern Ireland.

60. Collection etc. of NICs: Northern Ireland.

PART V

MISCELLANEOUS AND SUPPLEMENTAL

Miscellaneous

61. Tests for determining parentage.

62. Declarations of status.

Supplemental

63. Expenses.

64. Repeals.

65. Commencement and transitional provisions.

66. Short title and extent.

SCHEDULES:

    Schedule 1 - Substituted Part I of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Act 1991.

    Schedule 2 - Substituted Schedules 4A and 4B to the 1991 Act.

    Part I - Substituted Schedule 4A.

    Part II - Substituted Schedule 4B.

    Schedule 3 - Amendment of enactments relating to child support.

    Schedule 4 - Pensions: miscellaneous amendments and alternative to anti-franking rules.

    Part I - Miscellaneous amendments.

    Part II - Alternative to anti-franking rules.

    Schedule 5 - Social security investigation powers.

    Schedule 6 - Declarations of status: consequential amendments.

    Schedule 7 - Repeals.

    Part I - Child support.

    Part II - Occupational and personal pension schemes.

    Part III - War pensions.

    Part IV - Loss of benefit.

    Part V - Investigation powers.

    Part VI - NICs in respect of benefits in kind.

    Part VII - Tests for determining parentage and declarations of status.

© Parliamentary copyright 1999
Prepared 2 December 1999