# The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000, Regulation 24: Amendment of the principal Regulations


In regulation 36—
(a) in paragraph (1) the words “, including an appeal tribunal determining a misconceived appeal as a preliminary issue in accordance with regulation 48,” shall be omitted;
(b) in paragraph (2) for the words “paragraphs (3) to (5)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (3) to (5), (8) and (9)”;
(c) in paragraph (2)(a)(i) for the words “all work test” there shall be substituted the words “personal capability assessment”;
(d) in paragraph (2)(b)(i) after the words “the appeal” there shall be inserted the words “(not being an appeal where the only issue is whether there should be a declaration of an industrial accident under section 29(2)) ”;
(e) in paragraph (5) for the words “or (3)” there shall be substituted the words “, (3) or (9)”;
(f) in paragraph (6) for the words “a disability working allowance” there shall be substituted the words “a disabled person’s tax credit”;
(g) in paragraph (7) for the words “all work test” there shall be substituted the words “personal capability assessment”; and
(h) after paragraph (7) there shall be added the following paragraphs—
“(8) A person shall not act as a medically qualified panel member of an appeal tribunal in any appeal if he has at any time advised or prepared a report upon any person whose medical condition is relevant to the issue in the appeal, or has at any time regularly attended such a person.
(9) Subject to paragraph (5), an appeal tribunal determining a misconceived appeal as a preliminary issue in accordance with regulation 48 shall consist of a legally qualified panel member.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110992105/regulation/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-and-child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/regulation-24
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