The Social Security (Adjudication) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994

Amendment of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations

2.—(1) The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 64A(2) (date from which revised decision has effect on a review in specified circumstances)—

(a) in paragraph (3) at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to paragraph (3A),”; and

(b) after paragraph (3) there shall he inserted the following paragraph—

“(3A) A determination on a claim or question shall not be revised on review, in consequence of a determination by a Commissioner in another case that a decision of an adjudicating authority was erroneous in point of law, under section 23(2) or 28(2)(d) of the Administration Act so as to make benefit payable or to increase the amount of benefit payable in respect of that claim or question for any period prior to the date of that Commissioner’s determination.”.

(3) In regulations 65(3), 66(1), 69(1) as continued in operation by regulation 10 of the Social Security (Adjudication) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(3) and as amended by regulation 8 of those regulations, and 71 for “regulation 64A(2) or (3)” there shall be substituted “regulation 64A(2), (3) or (3A)”.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 82: relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1987 No. 466. S.R. 1988 No. 369, S.R. 1991 No. 406 and S. R. 1992 Nos. 36 and 83

(2)

Regulation 64A was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 1991 No. 406 and amended by regulation 12(3) of S. R. 1992 No. 36

(3)

S.R. 1987 No. 466