The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976

Prescribed payments out of public funds which constitute the persons in respect of whom they are payable as severely disabled persons

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 37 of the Act (invalid care allowance) the prescribed payments out of public funds which constitute the persons in respect of whom they are payable as severely disabled persons are—

(a) a payment under section 61 of the Act (increase of disablement pension where constant attendance needed);

(b) a payment such as is referred to in section 7(3)(b) of the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975(1) (increase of an allowance under that Act where the person in respect of whom that allowance is payable requires constant attendance as a result of his disablement);

(c) a payment under regulation 44 of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976(2) in respect of the need of constant attendance;

(d) a payment by way of an allowance in respect of constant attendance on account of disablement for which a person is in receipt of a war disablement pension,

being a payment the weekly rate of which is not less than the amount specified in paragraph 7(a) of Part V of Schedule 4 to the Act.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) of this regulation “war disablement pension” means—

(a) retired pay, pension or allowance granted in respect of disablement under powers conferred by or under the Ministry of Pensions Act 1916(3), the Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917(4), the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939(5), the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939(6), the Polish Resettlement Act 1947(7), the Home Guard Act 1951(8) or the Ulster Defence Regiment Act 1969(9);

(b) any retired pay or pension to which section 365(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970(10) applies, not being retired pay, pension or allowance to which sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph applies; or

(c) any payment which the Department has certified can be accepted as being analogous to any such retired pay, pension or allowance as is referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph.

(1)

1975 c. 16.

(2)

S.R. 1976 No. 42.

(3)

1916 c. 65.

(4)

1917 c. 51.

(5)

1939 c. 82.

(6)

1939 c. 83.

(7)

1947 c. 19.

(8)

1951 c. 8.

(9)

1969 c. 65.

(10)

1970 c. 10.