The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 8, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

Article 4(5)

SCHEDULE 5 MODIFICATION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY (GENERAL BENEFIT) REGULATIONS 1982

1.  As if, in regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation), for the definition of “determining authority” there were substituted the following definition—

• ““determining authority” means, as the case may require, the Secretary of State, an appeal tribunal constituted under section 7 of the Social Security Act 1998, the Chief or any other Social Security Commissioner appointed under Schedule 4 to that Act, or a tribunal consisting of any three or more such Commissioners constituted in accordance with section 16(7) of that Act;”.

2.  As if, in regulation 11 (further definition of the principles of assessment of disablement and prescribed degrees of disablement), in paragraphs (7) and (8) for the words from “the medical appeal tribunal” to “(as the case may be)” there were substituted the words “the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, an appeal tribunal”.

3.  As if, in regulation 40 (disqualification for receipt of benefit, suspension of proceedings on claims and suspension of payment of benefit), in paragraphs (2) to (4) for the words “adjudication officer, a social security appeal tribunal” there were substituted the words “Secretary of State, an appeal tribunal”.