The Social Security (Invalidity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance) Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations 1992

Amendment of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984

3.—(1) The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation) there shall be inserted after paragraph (1A) the following paragraph—

“(1B) In these Regulations “disability appeal tribunal” means a tribunal constituted in accordance with Schedule 10A to the Act.”.

(3) In regulation 9 (disqualification for severe disablement allowance), inparagraph (d)(iii)—

(a) at the end of head (bb) there shall be inserted the word “or”;

(b) after head (bb) there shall be inserted the following head—

“(cc) service as a member of a disability appeal tribunal on a day on which he would be deemed to be incapable of work by virtue of regulation 3(4) of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983,”; and

(c) for the words “of either description” there shall be substituted the words “described in head (aa) or (bb)”.

(1)

S.I. 1984/1303; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1986/1933 and S.I. 1989/1687.