Severe Disability Benefit and Carer's Allowance Ordinance 2021

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The Severe Disability Benefit and Carer’s Allowance
Ordinance, 2021
THE STATES POLICY & RESOURCES COMMITTEE, in exercise of the powers conferred on the States by sections 1(4), 2(3)(b), 3 and 23 of the Severe Disability Benefit and Carer’s Allowance (Guernsey) Law, 1984[a], and of all other powers enabling the States in that behalf, and on that Committee by Article 66A of the Reform (Guernsey) Law, 1948[b], hereby orders:-
Entitlement to severe disability benefit.
1. The amount determined for the purposes of section 1(4) of the Law is £103,600.
Entitlement to carer’s allowance.
2. The amount determined for the purposes of section 2(3)(b) of the Law is £103,600.
Rates of allowances.
3. (1) The weekly rate of a severe disability benefit determined for the purposes of section 3 of the Law is £111.02.
(2) The weekly rate of a carer’s allowance determined for the purposes of section 3 of the Law is £89.83.
Interpretation.
4. In this Ordinance the expression "the Law" means the Severe Disability Benefit and Carer’s Allowance (Guernsey) Law, 1984.
Repeal.
5. The Severe Disability Benefit and Carer’s Allowance Ordinance, 2019[c] is repealed.
Citation.
6. This Ordinance may be cited as the Severe Disability Benefit and Carer’s Allowance Ordinance, 2021.
Extent.
7. This Ordinance shall have effect in the Islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Herm and Jethou.
Commencement.
8. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st February, 2021.
[a]

Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXVIII p. 353; amended by Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXIX, p. 198; Vol. XXXI, p. 278, Vol. XXXIII, p. 238; Vol. XXXIV, p. 458; Vol. XXXIX, p. 107; Order in Council No. X of 2003; Order in Council No. IV of 2014 and No. XII of 2019; Recueil d’Ordonnances Tome XXVI, p. 177; Ordinance No. XXXIII of 2003; No. VII of 2009; No. XXX of 2013; No. IX of 2016; No. XXVII of 2018 and No. XXXII of 2019.
[b]

Ordres en Conseil Vol. XIII, p. 288; Article 66A was inserted by Order in Council No. XVII of 2015; there are other amendments not relevant to this Ordinance.
[c]

Ordinance No. XXXII of 2019.




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