The Social Security (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 7 and Savings, Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations

6.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) the definition of “determining authority”(2) shall be omitted.

(3) In regulation 26 (obligations of claimants for, and beneficiaries in receipt of, disablement benefit)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) for “medical authority (as defined in paragraph (4))” there shall be substituted “medical practitioner who has experience in the issues specified in regulation 12(1) of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) the words from “or by any” to the end shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (2) for the words from “to examination” to the end there shall be substituted “to examination before the expiry of the period of 6 days beginning with the date of the notice or such shorter period as may be reasonable in the circumstances”; and

(c) paragraph (4)(3) shall be omitted.

(1)

S.R. 1977 No. 351; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1984 No. 174

(2)

The definition of “determining authority” was substituted by regulation 11(a) of S.R. 1984 No. 174

(3)

Paragraph (4) was substituted by regulation 11(b) of S.R. 1984 No. 174