Schedule 1: Part 4: Category A and C retirement pensions: abolition of adult dependency increases
142.Paragraphs 12 and 13 of this Schedule remove references to adult dependency increases in the following sections of the SSCBA1992, which are redundant following the abolition of those increases:
	Section 30B(3)(b) which deals with the rate of short-term incapacity benefit payable to a person who has attained state pension age; andSection 78(4)(d) which deals with non-contributory Category C and D pensions.
143.Paragraphs 14, 15 and 16 remove redundant references to adult dependency increases in the following sections of the SSCBA1992:
	Section 88, which provides that a person cannot be entitled to an adult dependency increase in respect of more than one person for the same period;
	Section 89, which provides for occupational and personal pensions to be treated as earnings for the purposes of the conditions of entitlement to adult dependency increases; and
	Section 114, which provides for regulations to prescribe the circumstances in which one person can be taken to be maintaining another for the purposes of establishing entitlement to an adult dependency increase.
144.Paragraph 17 removes the redundant references to section 83(2) and (3) in section 149(3) of the SSCBA1992 which deals with circumstances in which a person is treated as being entitled to an adult dependency increase for the purposes of establishing entitlement to a Christmas bonus.
145.Paragraph 18 amends paragraphs 5 and 6 of Part 4 of Schedule 4 to the SSCBA1992 to remove redundant references to the rates at which adult dependency increases of Category A and C pensions are payable.