Article 10 Modification of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) RegulationsI1

The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977^f1 shall have effect in relation to any benefit mentioned in Article 2(b)(i) and (ii) as if in regulation 1(2) (interpretation) for the definition of “the determining authority”^f2 there were substituted the following definition—

• ““the determining authority” means, as the case may require, the Department, an appeal tribunal to which there is a right of appeal pursuant to Article 13 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 or a Commissioner to whom an appeal lies under Article 15 of that Order;”.