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PART IIIAMENDMENT RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT ONLY

Amendment of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations 1975

6.—(1) The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations 1975(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 3(2) for the words “parent or guardian of the person appointed by the Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “parent or guardian of the person or to a person appointed by the Secretary of State”.

(3) After regulation 8 for “Part III” there shall be substituted “Part IIIA”.

(4) In regulation 18 the words “any person who is such a relative by adoption and” shall be omitted.

(5) For the heading to regulation 25 and for regulation 25(1) there shall be substituted:—

Increase of benefit for adult dependant and further conditions applicable

25.(1) For the purposes of section 66(1)(c) (increase of benefit in respect of an adult relative of a beneficiary subject to such further conditions as may be prescribed) the relatives shall be the persons who bear such relationship to the beneficiary as is specified in Schedule 4 to these regulations and shall include any person who would be such a relative if some person born illegitimate had been born legitimate..

(6) In regulation 27(2) for “section 63(1)(a)” there shall be substituted “section 66(1)(a)” and for “(but no other requirement of regulation 26(1))” there shall be substituted “(but no other requirement of regulation 26(1)(a))”.

(7) In proviso (ii) to regulation 39(1) for “Schedule 8” there shall be substituted “Schedule 9”.

(8) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 for “section 69” (in both places) there shall be substituted “section 72” and in paragraph 2 of that Schedule for “section 68” there shall be substituted “section 71”.

(9) In paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 for “section 69” there shall be substituted “section 72”.

(10) In the heading to Schedule 7 for “section 67” there shall be substituted “section 70” and in paragraph 3(b) of that Schedule for “section 70” there shall be substituted “section 73”.

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(1975 I, p. 1979).