Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975

5.—(1) The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the appropriate places in alphabetical order there shall be inserted the following definitions—

“`charity' has the meaning assigned to it in the Income Tax Acts;

`health authority' has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act 1977(2) ;

`health board' means a health board constituted under section 2 and in accordance with Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;

`local authority' has the same meaning, for England and Wales, as in section 270(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 and, for Scotland, as in section 235(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;

`preserved board' has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973(3) .”.

(3) In regulation 9 (credits for unemployment or incapacity for work)—

(a) in paragraph (4)(a)(i) there shall be added at the end “or, for the purposes of a claim for unemployment benefit for that day, he would be deemed in accordance with regulations to be available for employment in employed earner's employment,”;

(b) in paragraph (4)(a)(iv) there shall be inserted, after the words “usual main occupation”, the words

“or it was done for or organised through—

(a) a charity, or

(b) a local authority, health authority, preserved board or health board in providing a service which is capable of being provided by a charity,”;

and

(c) paragraph (4)(a)(ii) is revoked.

(1)

, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations.

(2)

1977 c.49; section 128(1) as amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c.53), section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 77.

(3)

1973 c.32, section 15(6).