Social Security Act 1975

Section 168(1).

SCHEDULE 20 Glossary of Expressions

Expression	Meaning
" The 1973 Act "	The [1973 c. 38.] Social Security Act 1973.
" Age "	For purposes of this Act, a person— (a) is over or under a particular age if he has or, as the case may be, has not attained that age; (b) is between two particular ages if he has attained the first but not the second.
" Assessed " (in relation to extent of disablement).	Assessed in accordance with Schedule 8.
" Beneficiary "	In relation to any benefit, the person entitled to that benefit.
" Benefit "	Benefit under this Act or (as respects any period before 6th April 1975) under— (a) the National Insurance Act 1946 or 1965, or (b) the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 or 1965.
" Benefit year "	See section 13(7).
" Capable of work "	See section 17(1).
" Child "; " child of family "	" Child " means a person who would be treated as a child for the purposes of the Family Allowances Act.
	A person has, for the purposes of this Act, a family which includes a child or children if that person (not being a child) and a child or children (with or without a wife or husband of that person) would be treated for the purposes of the Family Allowances Act as constituting a family; and references to a child of a person's family are to be construed accordingly.
" Claim "	Construe in accordance with " claimant" (below).
" Claimant " (in relation to contributions under Part I and to benefit under Part II Chapters I to III).	A person whose right to be excepted from liability to pay, or to have his liability deferred for, or to be credited with, a contribution, is in question; a person who has claimed benefit.
	The expression includes, in relation to an award or decision, a beneficiary under the award or affected by the decision.
" Claimant " (in relation to industrial injuries benefit).	A person who has claimed industrial injuries benefit.
	The expression includes— (a) an applicant for a declaration under section 107 that an accident was or was not an industrial accident; and (b) in relation to an award or decision, a beneficiary under the award or affected by the decision.
" Commissioner "	The Chief National Insurance Commissioner, or any other National Insurance Commissioner.
	The expression includes a tribunal of 3 Commissioners constituted under section 116.
" Confinement "; " date of confinement "; " confined ".	See section 23(1).
" Contract of service "	Any contract of service or apprenticeship, whether written or oral and whether expressed or implied.
" Contribution card "	See section 146(4).
" Current " (in relation to the lower and upper earnings limits under section 4(1)).	For the time being in force.
" Day of incapacity for work ".	See section 17.
" Day of interruption of employment ".
" The deceased " (in relation to industrial death benefit).	The person in respect of whose death the benefit is claimed or payable.
" Disablement questions "	See section 108.
" Earner " and " earnings "	See section 3.
" Earnings factor "	See section 13.
" Employed "	Construe in accordance with "employment " below (except in the expression " employed earner ").
" Employed earner "	Construe in accordance with sections 2 and 51 and regulations under those sections.
" Employment "	Includes any trade, business, profession, office or vocation.
" Family allowance "	An allowance under the Family Allowances Act.
" The Family Allowances Act ".	The [1965 c. 53.] Family Allowances Act 1965.
" The former Industrial Injuries Act ".	The [1965 c. 52.] National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965.
" The former principal Act "	The [1965 c. 51.] National Insurance Act 1965.
" Friendly society "	A society registered as a friendly society under the [1974 c. 46.] Friendly Societies Act 1974— (a) being a society which, as part of its ordinary business, provides benefits during sickness or other infirmity, or in old age, or in widowhood, or for orphans, (b) not being a collecting society within the meaning of the [1923 c. 8.] Industrial Assurance Act 1923.
" Hovercraft "	A vehicle which is designed to be supported when in motion wholly or partly by air expelled from the vehicle to form a cushion of which the boundaries include the ground, water or other surface beneath the vehicle.
" Incapable of work " and " incapacity for work "	See sections 17(1), 36(7) and 56(2).
" Incapable of self-support "	A person is " incapable of self-support" if (but only if) he is incapable of supporting himself by reason of physical or mental infirmity and is likely to remain so incapable for a prolonged period.
	He is " permanently incapable of self-support" if (but only if) he is incapable of supporting himself by that reason, and is likely to remain so incapable for the remainder of his life.
" Industrial death benefit "	Industrial injuries benefit in respect of a person's death.
" Industrial injuries benefit "	Benefit under Part II, Chapter IV or V.
" The Inland Revenue "	The Commissioners of Inland Revenue.
" Late husband "	A reference to a woman's late husband, in relation to a woman who has been more than once married, is to her last husband.
" Living with "; " living together ".	A man and his wife shall not be deemed to be living otherwise than together unless— (a) they are permanently living in separation either by agreement or under an order of a court, or (b) one of them has deserted the other and the separation incident to the desertion has not come to an end.
" Local office "	Any office appointed by the Secretary of State as a local office for the purposes of this Act.
" Lower earnings limit "; " upper earnings limit ".	References to these limits are to the lower and upper limits referred to in section 4(1).
	References to the lower or upper earnings limit of a tax year are to whatever is (or was) for that year the limit in force under section 4(1).
" Medical examination "	The expression includes bacteriological and radiographical tests and similar investigations; construe "medically examined" accordingly.
" Medical practitioner "	A registered medical practitioner. The expression includes a person outside the United Kingdom who is not a registered medical practitioner, but has qualifications corresponding (in the Secretary of State's opinion) to those of a registered medical practitioner.
" Medical treatment "	Medical, surgical or rehabilitative treatment (including any course of diet or other regimen); references to a person receiving or submitting himself to medical treatment to be construed accordingly.
" The Northern Ireland Department ".	The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland.
" The Old Cases Act "	The [1975 c. 16.] Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975.
" Pensionable age "	In the case of a man, 65; in the case of a woman, 60.
" Pneumoconiosis "	Fibrosis of the lungs due to silica dust, asbestos dust or other dust. The expression includes the condition of the lungs known as dust-reticulation.
" Prescribe "	Prescribe by regulations.
" Procedure regulations "	Regulations under section 115.
" Regulations "	Regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Act.
" Relative "	Includes a person who is a relative by marriage or adoption and a person who would be a relative if some person born illegitimate had been born legitimate (subject however to sections 44(6), 47(1), 66(8) and 72(6) as respects the meaning of " relative " in those sections).
" Relevant accident "	The accident in respect of which industrial injuries benefit is claimed or payable.
" Relevant injury "	The injury in respect of which industrial injuries benefit is claimed or payable.
" Relevant loss of faculty "	The loss of faculty resulting from the relevant injury.
" Residing with "; " residing together ".	Two persons shall not be deemed to have ceased to reside together by reason of any temporary absence of either or both of them, and in particular by reason— (a) of any such absence at school or while receiving medical treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution, or (b) of any absence of either or both of them in such circumstances as may be prescribed.
" Reserve Pension Fund "	The Fund established under Part III of the 1973 Act.
" Reserve scheme contributions " ; " reserve scheme premiums ".	The contributions and premiums payable under Part III of the 1973 Act.
" School-leaving age "	For purposes of this Act, a person has attained (or not attained) school-leaving age if he would be treated as being over (or under) the upper limit of compulsory school age for purposes of the Family Allowances Act (disregarding regulations under section 2 of the [1967 c. 90.] Family Allowances and National Insurance Act 1967).
" Self-employed earner "	Construe in accordance with section 2.
" Short-term benefit "	Unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, maternity grant, maternity allowance and widow's allowance.
" Supplementary scheme "	A scheme under section 158.
" Tax week "	One of the successive periods in a tax year beginning with the first day of that year and every 7th day thereafter; the last day of a tax year (or, in the case of a tax year ending in a leap year, the last 2 days) to be treated accordingly as a separate tax week.
" Tax year "	The 12 months beginning with 6th April in any year.
" Trade or business "	For purposes of this Act, the exercise and performance of the powers and duties of a public or local authority are to be treated as the trade or business of the authority.
" Trade union "	An association of employed earners.
" Unemployability supplement ".	Increase of a disablement pension under section 58.
" Upper earnings limit "	See " lower earnings limit" and " upper earnings limit" (above).
" Up-rating order "	An order made by the Secretary of State under section 124.
" Week "	A period of 7 days beginning with midnight between Saturday and Sunday, except (in sections 17(1)(d), 20, 30(1) and 45(3)) where the expression is otherwise defined.
" Working life "	See section 27(2).