Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 1

In regulation 1 (interpretation) —

(a)

in paragraph (2) —

(i)

in the definition of “the Acts”, the references to the Family Income Supplements Act 1970 and the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 shall be omitted;

(ii)

in the definition of “claimant”, after the words “a beneficiary under the award or” there shall be inserted the words “a person”;

(iii)

after the definition of “full-time chairman” these shall be inserted the following definition —

““income support” means income support under Part II of the 1986 Act and includes personal expenses addition, special transitional addition and transitional addition as defined in the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations 1987^f1;”

(iv)

in the definition of “party to the proceedings” in sub-paragraph (a) the words in parenthesis shall be omitted and for sub-paragraph (d) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph —

“(d)

in any other proceedings, the adjudication officer and the Secretary of State except in proceedings in which the adjudication officer or the Secretary of State is the adjudicating authority;”;

(b)

for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

“(3)

Where, by any provision of the Acts or of these Regulations —

(a)

any notice or other document is required to be given or sent to any office, that notice or document shall be treated as having been so given or sent on the day that it is received in that office; and

(b)

any notice or other document is required to be given or sent to any person, that notice or document shall, if sent by post to that person’s last known or notified address, be treated as having been sent on the day that it was posted.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1987/1969.