PART 3AMENDMENTS TO SECONDARY LEGISLATION

Amendments to the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995

9.—(1) The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 7(2)(1) (failure to provide information)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (a) for “6 weeks” substitute “4 weeks”; and

(b)in sub-paragraph (b)–

(i)for “4 weeks” substitute “3 weeks”, and

(ii)for “2 weeks have” substitute “1 week has”.

(3) In regulation 11(2) (person with an infectious or contagious disease)—

(a)for the heading substitute—

“Person with a relevant infection or contamination”;

(b)in paragraph (1) for “by reason of his being a carrier, or having been in contact with a case, of a relevant disease” substitute “by reason of it being known or reasonably suspected that he is infected or contaminated by, or has been in contact with a case of, a relevant infection or contamination”; and

(c)in paragraph (2), for the definition of “relevant disease” substitute—

““relevant infection or contamination” means—

(a)

in England and Wales–

(i)

any incidence or spread of infection or contamination, within the meaning of section 45A(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(3) in respect of which regulations are made under Part 2A of that Act(4) (public health protection) for the purpose of preventing, protecting against, controlling or providing a public health response to, such incidence or spread, or

(ii)

any disease, food poisoning, infection, infectious disease or notifiable disease to which regulation 9 (powers in respect of persons leaving aircraft) of the Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations 1979(5) applies or to which regulation 10 (powers in respect of certain persons on ships) of the Public Health (Ships) Regulations 1979(6) applies; and

(b)

in Scotland, any–

(i)

infectious disease within the meaning of section 1(5) of the Public Health etc (Scotland) Act 2008(7), or exposure to an organism causing that disease, or

(ii)

contamination within the meaning of section 1(5) of that Act, or exposure to a contaminant,

to which sections 56 to 58 of that Act (compensation) apply.”.

(1)

Regulation 7 was amended by regulation 2(3) of S.I 1999/3109.

(2)

Regulation 11 was substituted by regulation 12(2) of S.I. 2006/2378.

(4)

Part 2A was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14).

(6)

S.I. 1979/1435. Regulation 9 has been amended but not in a way material to these Regulations.