The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations

6.—(1) The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).

(2) In the heading to regulation 59 (review of decisions involving payment or increase of benefit other than industrial injuries benefit, income support, family credit or disability working allowance) after “industrial injuries benefit” there shall be inserted “,except reduced earnings allowance,”.

(3) In regulation 59(1)—

(a) after “industrial injuries benefit” there shall be inserted “,except reduced earnings allowance,”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (e) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(f) in the case of reduced earnings allowance, the date 12 months before the date of the application for the review.”.

(4) In the heading to regulation 60 (review of decisions involving payment or increase of industrial injuries benefit) at the end there shall be added “, except reduced earnings allowance”.

(5) In regulation 60(1) after “industrial injuries benefit” there shall be inserted “, except reduced earnings allowance,”.

(1)

S.R. 1995 No. 293, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations