{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-no-8-and-savings-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-no-8-and-savings-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/371",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 8 and Savings, Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-no-8-and-savings-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 10 (adjudication)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(i) for “an adjudicating medical authority” there shall be substituted “the Department or, as the case may be, an appeal tribunal constituted under Article 8 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998”; and\n(b) paragraphs (3) and (4) shall be omitted.\n(3) In regulation 17(3) (claims made before 29th November 1984) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in operation at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No. 317, to which there are amendments not relevant to this order"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/371/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:13.210939+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."
}