Article 3 Amendments to the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (England and Wales) Rules 1980

In rule 2—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (b), for “and an assessment appeal” there shall be substituted “, an assessment appeal and an appeal against a specified decision”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (g), for “1959” there shall be substituted “1983”^f1;

(c)

at the end of sub-paragraph (i) there shall be inserted “for England and Wales under section 2B^f2 of the Act; and references to the President shall be construed as including the Deputy President where he is authorised to carry out any function of the President under any provision of the Act or of these Rules”;

(d)

after sub-paragraph (j) there shall be inserted:—

“(jj)

“specified decision” has the meaning given in section 5A of the Act^f3;”;

(e)

after sub-paragraph (k) there shall be inserted:—

“(l)

“the Deputy President” means the person appointed by the Lord Chancellor to be Deputy President of Pensions Appeal Tribunals for England and Wales under section 2B of the Act.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The reference is to the definition of “mental disorder” in section 1(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20).
f2: Section 2B of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 was inserted by section 60(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19).
f3: Section 5A of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 was inserted by section 57(1) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000.