Modification of enactments
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, until Chapter II of Part I of the Social Security Act 1998(1) (social security decisions and appeals) is wholly in force, any enactment specified in column (1) of the Schedule to these Regulations shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in column (2) of that Schedule.
(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply with respect to—
(a)any such question as is mentioned in—
(i)paragraph (b) of section 17(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(2) (questions for the Secretary of State) in so far as that question does not raise an issue of a kind specified in paragraph (c), (d) or (e) of section 8(1) of the Act (decisions by officers of Board of Inland Revenue), or
(ii)paragraph (e) or (f) of that section 17(1);
(b)any question which is, by virtue of section 170(1) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993(3) (determination of questions by the Secretary of State), included in the questions to which that section 17(1) applies; or
(c)any decision to which article 4(6) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999(4) (decisions to which Part II of the Act is not to apply) applies.
1993 c. 48; section 170 was amended by paragraph 42 of Schedule 3, paragraph 70 of Schedule 5, and Schedule 7, to the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26).