The Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983

Invalidity allowance

19.—(1) Where a disabled person is awarded an allowance under Article 18(1)(i) in respect of unemployability and has not on the relevant date attained the age of 60 or, in the case of a woman, the age of 55, he may be awarded an additional allowance at the appropriate rate specified in Schedule 3, paragraph 8.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this Article, the relevant date for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this Article shall be the commencing date of the period in respect of which an allowance under Article 18(1)(i) is awarded, and if there have been two or more such periods the commencing date of the later or last of them.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) of this Article, where a break between two periods in respect of which an allowance under Article 18(1)(i) has been awarded does not exceed 8 weeks, those periods shall not be treated as separate periods.

(4) If the unemployability in respect of which an allowance is awarded forms part of a period of interruption of employment for the purposes of Chapter I of Part II of the Social Security Act 1975 or the corresponding provisions of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 which has continued without a break from a date earlier than the date fixed under paragraphs (2) and (3) of this Article, the relevant date shall be the first day of incapacity for work for those purposes in that period.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Article, the relevant date may be such other date as the Secretary of State may determine if in his opinion the circumstances of any particular case so require.

(6) This Article shall not apply if on 20th September 1971 the disabled person was a man over the age of 65 or a woman over the age of 60.

(7) The provisions of paragraph (6) of Article 18, in so far as they provide for taking into account any benefit payable out of public funds under the law of any place outside the United Kingdom, shall apply to an allowance awarded under this Article as they apply to a personal allowance awarded under that Article.