The Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1992

Amendment of regulation 23 of the Introduction Regulations

4.  In regulation 23 of the Introduction Regulations (appeals to Commissioners from decisions of the Attendance Allowance Board)—

(a) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), after the 5th April 1992 an appeal lies to a Commissioner, with his leave or that of another Commissioner, against a determination by the Attendance Allowance Board of any question of law arising from either—

(a) a review made by the Attendance Allowance Board under section 106(1) of the 1975 Act, or

(b) a refusal by the Attendance Allowance Board to review a determination made by them under section 105(3) or 106(1) of the 1975 Act,

at the instance of the claimant in question or the Secretary of State.

(1A) Those provisions of the Social Security Commissioners Procedure Regulations 1987(1) which on 5th April 1992 applied to applications or appeals made under section 106(2) of the 1975 Act shall apply in like manner to applications and appeals made under paragraph (1).”;

(b) at the beginning of paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the words “On or after 16th March 1992”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/214.