Health and Social Security Act 1984

15 Attendance allowance: daily entitlement

(1) In this section—

• " the 1975 Regulations " means the [S.I. 1975/560.] Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1975 ;

• " the 1977 amendment Regulations " means the [S.I. 1977/1361.] Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1977;

• " the 1979 Regulations " means the [S.I. 1979/628.] Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979 ;

• " the 1980 amendment Regulations " means the [S.I. 1980/1136.] Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1980;

• " regulation 16A " means regulation 16A of the 1975 Regulations, which was added by regulation 9 of the 1977 amendment Regulations;

• "regulation 18 " means regulation 18 of the 1979 Regulations, both as originally made and as substituted by regulation 6(2) of the 1980 amendment Regulations ;

• "appropriate pay day " means a day for payment under regulation 15(7) of the 1975 Regulations or regulation 16(7) of the 1979 Regulations of weekly sums on account of an attendance allowance; and

• "13 week period " means the period mentioned in regulation 16A or regulation 18.

(2) Regulation 16A and regulation 18 shall be deemed always to have had effect as if—

(a) the words " Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of these regulations " were inserted at the beginning;

(b) any reference to attendance allowance being payable for a period were a reference to attendance allowance which would have been payable for that period but for—

(i) regulation 15(9) or (10) of the 1975 Regulations ; or

(ii) regulation 16(10) or (11) of the 1979 Regulations ; and

(c) in relation to any case where a 13 week period does not end on an appropriate pay day, any reference to a 13 week period in paragraph (1) were a reference to that period together with any days after its end but before the next appropriate pay day.