Jersey Law 38/2002

 

SOCIAL SECURITY (AMENDMENT No. 15) (JERSEY) LAW 2002

____________

 

A LAW     to amend further the Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974; sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

 

22nd day of OCTOBER 2002

____________

 

(Registered on the 8th day of November 2002)

____________

 

STATES OF JERSEY

____________

 

The 18th day of June 2002

____________

 

                THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law -

 

ARTICLE 1

 

                In this Law, “principal Law” means the Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974,[1] as amended.[2]

 

ARTICLE 2

 

                In Article 1(1) of the principal Law,[3] before the definition “the appointed day” there shall be inserted the following definition -

 

          “ ‘adoption order’ has the same meaning as in the Adoption (Jersey) Law 1961[4];”.

 

ARTICLE 3

 

                In Article 12 of the principal Law,[5] after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph -

 

          “(ba)   adoptive parent grant;”.

 

ARTICLE 4

 

                In Article 13(1)(a) of the principal Law,[6] after the words “maternity grant,” there shall be inserted the words “adoptive parent grant”.

 

ARTICLE 5

 

                After Article 23 of the principal Law[7] there shall be inserted the following Article -

 

“ARTICLE 23A

 

Adoptive parent grant

 

          (1)     Subject to the provisions of this Law, a person shall be entitled to an adoptive parent grant if -

 

          (a)     an adoption order is made authorizing the person to adopt a child; and

 

          (b)     the person and person’s spouse (if any) satisfies the relevant contribution conditions.

 

          (2)     Where the order described in paragraph (1)(a) authorizes two spouses to adopt a child, the spouses shall nominate which of them is to be the person entitled under that paragraph.”.

 

ARTICLE 6

 

                In Part II of the First Schedule to the principal Law[8] -

 

                (a)     after paragraph 1 there shall be inserted the following paragraph -

 

 

                (b)     for paragraph 2 there shall be substituted the following paragraph -

 

 

ARTICLE 7

 

                In the Second Schedule to the principal Law, after paragraph 5[9] there shall be inserted the following paragraph -

 

“Adoptive parent grant.

 

          5A.-(1)  The contribution conditions for adoptive parent grant are that the relevant person has paid contributions prior to the end of the relevant quarter and the annual contribution factor derived from those contributions is not less than 0.25.

 

          (2)     In this paragraph -

 

          (a)     the expression “relevant person” means the person by whom the conditions are to be satisfied;

 

          (b)     the expression “relevant quarter” means the previous quarter but one before the quarter in which the adoption order is made.”.

 

ARTICLE 8

 

                This Law may be cited as Social Security (Amendment No. 15) (Jersey) Law 2002 and shall come into force on such day or days as the States by Act appoint and different days may be appointed for different provisions of this Law and for different purposes.

 

                                                                                            C.M. NEWCOMBE

 

Greffier of the States.