Jersey R & O 68/2001

 

Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974

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SOCIAL SECURITY (GENERAL BENEFIT) (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) ORDER 2001

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                THE EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Articles 13, 14, 29 and 51 of the Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974,[1] as amended,[2] orders as follows -

 

                1.      In this Order, “principal Order” means the Social Security (General Benefit) Order 1975,[3] as amended.[4]

 

                2.      For the words “widow’s benefit” where they occur in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Article 2 of the principal Order there shall be substituted the words “survivor’s benefit”.

 

                3.      For the words “widow’s benefit” in Article 10(3) of the principal Order there shall be substituted the words “survivor’s benefit”.

 

                4.      For the First Schedule to the principal Order there shall be substituted the schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

 

                5.      This Order may be cited as the Social Security (General Benefit) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the first day of April 2001.

 

                By Order of the Employment and Social Security Committee,

 

                                                                                            C.M. NEWCOMBE

 

Greffier of the States.

 

27th March 2001.

SCHEDULE

 

(Article 4)

 

“FIRST SCHEDULE

 

PROVISIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF WHICH DISQUALIFICATIONS UNDER THE LAW ARE TO BE DISREGARDED.

 

(Article 13).

 

Class of person           (1)	Benefit for which person is disqualified       (2)	Article of the Law for the purpose of which disqualification is to be disregarded (3)	Subject matter             (4)
A widow                 A widow                   A surviving spouse	Survivor’s benefit               Survivor’s benefit                 Survivor’s allowance	25 (3) (b)                          25 (6)                   24 (2) (b)	Old age pension by virtue of husband’s insurance  for widow entitled, immediately before attaining pensionable age, to survivor’s benefit in respect of her husband’s death.   Calculation of yearly average of contributions for old age pension of widow by virtue of her own insurance, where   she is not entitled            to survivor’s benefit immediately before attaining pensionable age.   Period for which a survivor’s pension is payable (being a period for which the surviving spouse is not entitled to survivor’s allowance).

 

Class of persons           (1)	Benefit for which person is disqualified       (2)	Article of the Law for the purpose of which disqualification is to be disregarded (3)	Subject matter             (4)
A deceased spouse         A widow	Old age pension         Old age pension	24 (1) (a)           25 (4) proviso	Survivor’s allowance for surviving spouse, if deceased spouse was not entitled at date of death to an old age pension.   Cessation, on re-marriage, of an old age pension to which a widow is entitled immediately before re-marriage by virtue of deceased husband’s insurance.”.