The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 9, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

Article 3(4)

SCHEDULE 3 AMENDMENT OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY (WIDOW'S BENEFIT AND RETIREMENT PENSIONS) REGULATIONS 1979

1.  In regulation 1(1) (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (2), for the definition of “the determining authority” there shall be substituted the following definition—

• ““the determining authority” means, as the case may require, the Secretary of State, an appeal tribunal constituted under Chapter I of Part I of the Social Security Act 1998 or a Commissioner, or a tribunal consisting of three or more such Commissioners constituted in accordance with section 16(7) of that Act;”; and

(b) in paragraph (3) the words—

(i) “the Secretary of State or”; and

(ii) “, whichever is appropriate”,

shall be omitted.

2.  In regulation 4(2)(b)(i) (days to be treated as days of increment) the words—

(a) “the Secretary of State or”; and

(b) “, whichever is appropriate,”,

shall be omitted.

(1)

Amendment was made by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983, Schedule 8, paragraph 1(3)(a).