{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-commissioners-procedure-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110723023",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Commissioners (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-commissioners-procedure-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Social Security Commissioners (Procedure) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "In regulation 4(1)—\n(a) before the definition of “the 1998 Act”, insert—\n““the 1943 Act” means the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943;”;\n(b) for the definition of “appeal tribunal” substitute—\n““appeal tribunal” means—\n(i) an appeal tribunal constituted under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the 1998 Act; or\n(ii) a Pensions Appeal Tribunal;”;\n(c) in the definition of “authorised officer”, after “the 1998 Act” insert “or section 6D(2) of the 1943 Act”;\n(d) in paragraph (ii) of the definition of “the chairman”, after “the 1998 Act” insert “, section 6A of the 1943 Act”;\n(e) for the definition of “Commissioner” substitute—\n““Commissioner” means the Chief Social Security Commissioner or any other Social Security Commissioner appointed under the 1998 Act, and includes a tribunal of:\n(i) three or more Commissioners constituted under section 16(7) of the 1998 Act or paragraph 10(5) of Schedule 7 to the 2000 Act; and\n(ii) two or more Commissioners constituted under section 6D(5) of the 1943 Act or section 16(7) of the 1998 Act;”;\n(f) in the definition of “respondent”, at the end of paragraph (iii) insert—\n“,\n(iv) in the case of an application or appeal under the 1943 Act, the person with a right to appeal under section 6A(2) of that Act other than the applicant or appellant”;\n(g) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(3) A Commissioner is to be known as a “Pensions Appeal Commissioner”—\n(a) where an application or appeal is made to a Commissioner under the 1943 Act;\n(b) in respect of the determination of a forfeiture rule question, where the relevant enactment for the purposes of section 4(5) of the Forfeiture Act 1982 is—\n(i) the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939;\n(ii) the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939;\n(iii) the Polish Resettlement Act 1947; or\n(iv) the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1943 c.39; amended by the Armed Forces (Pension and Compensation) Act 2004 (c.32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1939 c.82."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1939 c.83."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1947 c.19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2004 c.32."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110723023/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:31.260115+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}