The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 No. 177

PART 3 Amendment of legislation applying in relation to Northern Ireland

Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

21.—(1) The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—

(a) omit the definition of “child disability payment”;

(b) after the definition of “relevant person” insert—

““Scottish disability benefit” means, as the context requires, either of the following benefits—

(a)

adult disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 in circumstances where regulation 53(1) of those Regulations applies;

(b)

child disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021 in circumstances where regulation 36(1) of those Regulations applies;”.

(3) In regulation 3(7)(b) (revision of decisions), for each occurrence of “child disability payment”, substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(4) In regulation 6(2)(e)(ii) (supersession of decisions), for each occurrence of “child disability payment”, substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(5) In regulation 7(7)(a) (date from which a decision superseded under Article 11 takes effect), for each occurrence of “child disability payment”, substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(1)

S.R. 1999 No. 162; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2000 No. 215, S.R. 2002 No. 67, S.R. 2005 No. 46 and S.R. 2006 No. 168.