Article 8 Amendment of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 10 (adjudication)—

(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

(b)

paragraphs (3) and (4) shall be omitted.

(3)

In regulation 17(3) (claims made before 29th November 1984) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 8 in operation at made date

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1984 No. 317, to which there are amendments not relevant to this order