Special provisions for persons entitled to long-term incapacity benefit on termination of a period of entitlement to disability working allowance
19.—(1) Where a person who was entitled to a transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit becomes entitled to incapacity benefit by virtue of section 30C(5) and the rate of that benefit is less than the rate at which the transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit would have been payable had he not ceased to be entitled to that award, incapacity benefit shall be payable at the latter rate until—
(a)in the case where the transitional award included an increase under regulation 24(1),.the conditions in regulation 24(3) or any of the provisions referred to in regulation 25(2) are no longer satisfied;
(b)in any other case, the rate of long-term incapacity benefit under section 30B (rate) together with any increase under section 86A equals or exceeds that rate.
(2) Where a person—
(a)who was entitled to disability working allowance by virtue of section 128(1) before the appointed day or to disability working allowance at any time in a period of not more than 56 days beginning on or after the appointed day, becomes entitled to incapacity benefit;
(b)would have become entitled to invalidity benefit by virtue of section 33(7) or 42(2) had the Order not come into operation; and
(c)the rate of incapacity benefit is less than the rate at which a transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit would have been payable had the days of entitlement to invalidity benefit in the period of interruption of employment which arose immediately before the period of entitlement to disability working allowance been days of entitlement to invalidity benefit in a period of interruption of employment running at the appointed day,
incapacity benefit shall be payable at the latter rate until, in the case where the transitional award would have included an increase under regulation 24(1), the conditions in regulation 24(3) or in any of the provisions referred to in regulation 25(2) are no longer satisfied, and in any other case, the rate of long-term incapacity benefit under section 30B together with any increase under section 86A equals or exceeds that rate.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the days of entitlement to disability working allowance referred to in that paragraph shall be treated as days of incapacity for work.
Section 128 is amended by Article 12(2) and (3) of, and paragraph 32 of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994
Section 33 is repealed by Schedule 2 to, and section 42 is substituted by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994