The Financial Assistance Scheme and Incapacity Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009

Amendment of the Financial Assistance Scheme (Provision of Information and Administration of Payments) Regulations 2005

11.—(1) The Financial Assistance Scheme (Provision of Information and Administration of Payments) Regulations 2005(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In Schedule 1 (information to be provided by appropriate persons) in paragraph 1(2), after the fifth item of the table insert a sixth item containing—

(a) in the first column, the words “The scheme manager.”;

(b) in the second column, the words “In relation to a written request under regulation 17(3C)(a) or 17C(2) or (9) of the FAS Regulations, medical evidence about the qualifying member’s state of health to enable the scheme manager to determine whether the scheme manager is satisfied for the purposes of regulation 17(3C)(c) or 17C(3) of those Regulations.”; and

(c) in the third column, the words “The period of 14 days beginning on the day on which the scheme manager requests the information.”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (information to be provided by beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries) in paragraph 1, after the seventh item of the table insert an eighth item containing—

(a) in the first column, the words “Any qualifying member (or that member’s relevant representative within the meaning of regulation 17C of the FAS Regulations) who makes a written request under regulation 17(3C)(a) or 17C(2) or (9) of the FAS Regulations.”;

(b) in the second column, the words “Medical evidence about the qualifying member’s state of health to enable the scheme manager to determine whether the scheme manager is satisfied for the purposes of regulation 17(3C)(c) or 17C(3) of the FAS Regulations”; and

(c) in the third column, the words “The period of 14 days beginning on the day on which the scheme manager requests the information.”.

(1)

S.I. 2005/2189. Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2005/3256.