The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients, Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975 (“the Hospital In-Patients Regulations”), the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (“the Attendance Allowance Regulations”) and the Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (“the Disability Living Allowance Regulations”).

Regulations 2, 3 and 4 amend respectively regulation 2 of the Hospital In-Patients Regulations, regulation 6 of the Attendance Allowance Regulations and regulations 8 and 12A of the Disability Living Allowance Regulations to provide that a period during which a person is, or is treated as, receiving free in-patient treatment, or is treated as being maintained free of charge while undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient, begins on the day after he enters a hospital or similar institution and ends on the day on which he leaves.

These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Social Security in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.