United Kingdom Statutory Instruments

(a) section 1 (entitlement);

(b) section 2 (guarantee credit);

(c) section 3 (savings credit);

(d) section 4 (exclusions);

(e) section 5 (income and capital of claimant, spouse etc)

(f) section 6 (duty to specify assessed income period);

(g) section 7 (fixing of claimant's retirement provision for assessed income period);

(h) section 9 (duration of assessed income period);

(i) section 11 (administration);

(j) section 12 (polygamous marriages);

(k) section 13 (transitional provisions);

(l) section 14 (minor and consequential amendments) except so far as it relates to paragraph 3 of Schedule 2;

(m) section 15 (income and capital);

(n) section 16 (retirement pension income); and

(o) section 17 (other interpretation provisions),

is 2nd July 2002 for the purposes only of exercising any power to make regulations or orders.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.


Ian McCartney
Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

1st July 2002