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Section 15 Attendance allowance: daily entitlement.C1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

In this section—

  • “the 1975 Regulations” means the M1Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1975;

  • “the 1977 amendment Regulations” means the M2Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1977

  • “the 1979 Regulations” means the M3Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979

;

  • “the 1980 amendment Regulations” means the M4Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1980;

  • “regulation 16A” means regulation 16A of the 1975 Regulations, which was added by regulation 9 of the 1977 amendment Regulations;

  • “regulation 18” means regulation 18 of the 1979 Regulations, both as originally made and as substituted by regulation 6(2) of the 1980 amendment Regulations;

  • “appropriate pay day” means a day for payment under regulation 15(7) of the 1975 Regulations or regulation 16(7) of the 1979 Regulations of weekly sums on account of an attendance allowance; and

  • “13 week period” means the period mentioned in regulation 16A or regulation 18.

(2)

Regulation 16A and regulation 18 shall be deemed always to have had effect as if—

(a)

the words “Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of these regulations” were inserted at the beginning;

(b)

any reference to attendance allowance being payable for a period were a reference to attendance allowance which would have been payable for that period but for—

(i)

regulation 15(9) or (10) of the 1975 Regulations; or

(ii)

regulation 16(10) or (11) of the 1979 Regulations; and

(c)

in relation to any case where a 13 week period does not end on an appropriate pay day, any reference to a 13 week period in paragraph (1) were a reference to that period together with any days after its end but before the next appropriate pay day.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

S.I. 1975/560.

M2

S.I. 1977/1361.

M3

S.I. 1979/628

M4

S.I. 1980/1136

Modifications

C1

The text of s. 15 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991