The Social Security (Abolition of Injury Benefit) (Consequential) Regulations 1983

Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979

11.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979(1) are amended in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) In the heading to regulation 11, for the words “, invalidity and injury” there are substituted the words “and invalidity”.

(3) In regulation 11(1)(a), for the words “, invalidity or injury” there are substituted the words “or invalidity”.

(4) Sub-paragraph (f) of regulation 15(1) is revoked.

(5) From regulation 16(1)(g) the words “not being injury benefit” are omitted.

(6) From the heading to regulation 26 the words “, injury benefit or” are omitted.

(7) From regulation 26(1) the words “, injury benefit or” are omitted.

(8) Regulation 27 is revoked.

(9) In Schedule 1, there are omitted from paragraph 3 the words “injury benefit” (where they first occur) and the words “or injury” (in both places where they occur), and from paragraph 4 the words “injury benefit,”.

(10) In Schedule 2—

(a) from the general heading there are omitted the words “INJURY BENEFIT,”;

(b) in the heading to paragraph 2, for the words “, Invalidity and Injury” there are substituted the words “and Invalidity”;

(c) in paragraph 2(1) for the words “, invalidity or injury” there are substituted the words “or invalidity”; and

(d) in paragraph 2A the words “injury benefit” are omitted.

(11) In Schedule 3—

(a) the words “, injury benefit” (in the first 3 places where they occur) are omitted;

(b) for the words “, invalidity benefit or injury” (in both places where they occur) there are substituted the words “or invalidity”;

(c) the words “of injury benefit or” are omitted; and

(d) the items “An increase of injury benefit” and “Injury benefit” in column (1) and the items set opposite them in column (2) are omitted.

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the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1982/1362.