Regulation 8 Amendment of the General Benefit Regulations

(1)

The General Benefit Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2)

In paragraph (2) of regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation) M1 in the definition of “determining authority” after the words “section 97(1) of the Act”, there shall be inserted the words “ or a disability appeal tribunal constituted under Schedule 10A to the Act ”.

(3)

In paragraph (2) of regulation 2 (exceptions from disqualification for imprisonment etc.) M2 for the words “mobility allowance” there shall be substituted the words “ attendance allowance, disability living allowance ”.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: Regulation 1(2) was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c.41), Schedule 8, paragraph 1(3)(a).
M2: Regulation 2(2) was amended by S.I. 1984/1303, 1983/186 and 1986/1561.