The Social Security (Adjudication) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 1 of the principal regulations (interpretation) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In paragraph (2)—

(a) in the definition of “adjudicating authority” for “the Attendance Allowance Board, a medical appeal tribunal” there shall be substituted “a medical appeal tribunal, a disability appeal tribunal”;

(b) the definition of “the Attendance Allowance Board” shall be omitted;

(c) after the definition of “the Department” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

““disability appeal tribunal” means a tribunal constituted in accordance with Schedule 10A to the 1975 Act(1);

“disability question” has the meaning assigned by regulation 26C(2);”;

(d) in the definition of “full-time chairman” for “and medical appeal tribunals” there shall be substituted “, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals”(2);

(e) in the definition of “party to the proceedings” in paragraph (b) after “appeal tribunal” there shall be inserted “or a disability appeal tribunal”; and

(f) in the definition of “President” for “and medical appeal tribunals” there shall be substituted “, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals”.

(3) Paragraph (4) shall be omitted.

(1)

1975 c. 15; Schedule 10A was inserted by paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1712 (N.I. 17))

(2)

See paragraph 1A(1) of Schedule 10 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 which was substituted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance (Northern Ireland) Order 1991