FAMILY BONUS ORDER

FAMILY BONUS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 318.09

FAMILY BONUS ORDER

7th January, 1989

LEGAL NOTICE 93 of 1989.

The title of this Order is the Family Bonus Order.

A family bonus equivalent to Lm1 per week shall be paid

by the Director of Social Security in accordance with article 3 of

this Order to the recipient of any of the allowances payable under

and in accordance with articles 81 to 88 of the Social Security Act,

hereinafter referred to as "the Act".

The family bonus referred to in article 2 of this Order shall

be paid at intervals of twenty-six weeks and shall, in any calendar

year, fall due as follows -

(a) as regards the first payment, on the day when the

second quarterly payment of any allowance under

articles 81 to 88 of the Act falls due in accordance

with article 99(1)(b)(iv) of the said Act; and

(b) as regards the second payment, on the day when the

fourth quarterly payment of any allowance under the

aforesaid articles 81 to 88 falls due in accordance with

the aforesaid subparagraph (iv).

Every payment as aforesaid shall cover any family bonus

that may be payable in respect of the thirteen consecutive weeks in

arrears, or part thereof, as the case may be, ending on the last day

immediately prior to the day when the payment of the family bonus

falls due in terms of article 3 of this Order and any family bonus

that may be payable in respect of the thirteen consecutive weeks in

advance, or part thereof, as the case may be, starting from the first

day immediately after the day when the payment of the family

bonus falls due in terms of the aforesaid article 3.

Family bonus shall cease to become payable on the same

day that any of the allowances payable under and in accordance

with the provisions of articles 81 to 88 of the Act ceases to become

payable; and for this purpose the provisions of article 99(3) of the

Act shall apply in the same way as they may be applicable with

respect to any of the allowances payable under the provisions of the

aforesaid articles 81 to 88 with regards to the same beneficiary.