TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Protection (Recoupment of Unemployment Benefit and Supplementary Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations, the “ principal Regulations ” means the Employment Protection (Recoupment of Unemployment Benefit and Supplementary Benefit) Regulations 1977 . Amendment of principal Regulations 3 Subject to Regulation 4 below the principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:— 1 for the words “supplementary benefit”, wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words “income support”; 2 in Regulation 2— a after paragraph (2)(a) there shall be inserted a new sub-paragraph “(aa) “the 1978 Act ” means the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978”; b in paragraph (2)(b) for the words “Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974” there shall be substituted the words “1978 Act”; c in paragraph (2)(c) for the words “section 112(8) of the 1975 Act” there shall be substituted the words “section 132(6) of the 1978 Act;”; d for paragraph (2)(j) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:— “Unemployment benefit” and “income support” have the same meaning as in the Social Security Act 1975 and the Social Security Act 1986 respectively and references to “benefit” include income support as the context may require; ; e in paragraph (2)(k) for the words “Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 or the Social Security Act 1975” there shall be substituted the words “Social Security Acts 1975 to 1986”; f in paragraph (3) for the words “1975 Act” there shall be substituted the words “1978 Act unless otherwise indicated”. 3 Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is hereby revoked. 4 in Regulation 5(2) for the words “Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 or the 1975 Act” there shall be substituted the words “1975 Act or the 1978 Act”. 5 in Regulations 11 and 12 for the words “insurance officer” and “benefit officer” there shall be substituted the words “adjudication officer”. 6 in Regulation 11(2)(a):— a for the words “local tribunal” there shall be substituted the words “Social Security Appeal Tribunal”; b after the words “sections 99 to 104 of the Social Security Act 1975” there shall be inserted “ ”. 7 as a footnote to the reference to sections 99 to 104 of the Social Security Act 1975 in Regulation 11(2)(a) there shall be inserted the following:— 1975 c. 14 ; so far as is relevant sections 99 to 104 were amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act 1980 c. 30 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 c. 41 and paragraphs 5 to 10 of Schedule 5 to the Social Security Act 1986 c. 50 . 8 in Regulation 12(2):— a for the words “the Supplementary Benefits” there shall be substituted the words “a Social Security”; b for the words “regulation 71 of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984” there shall be substituted the words “section 100(1) of the Social Security Act 1975” 9 for the Schedule there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations. Transitional provisions 4 Notwithstanding Regulation 3 above the principal Regulations shall continue to have effect for the purpose of the operation of those Regulations in relation to the recoupment of supplementary benefit where awards are made by industrial tribunals after the date these Regulations come into force but in respect of a period before that date. Signed by order of the Secretary of State. Patrick Nicholls Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment 7th March 1988