Explanatory note

regulation 2 enables recrudescence questions to be considered where no award of disablement benefit has been made but disablement has been assessed at 1 per cent. or more;

regulation 3 alters the age from 75 to 80 in the context of medical questions and mobility allowance as a consequence of the age limit for a mobility allowance being raised from 75 to 80 by section 8 of the Social Security Act 1989;

regulation 4 removes from regulation 64 (questions not immediately determinable) the provision dealing with seasonal workers (consequential upon the revocation of regulation 43 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (notional earnings of seasonal workers)), and the word“suitable” from the reference to“suitable employment” (following the omission of references to the suitability of employment in sub-sections (1) and (4) of section 20 of the Social Security Act 1975); it also provides for the determination of a claim for income support where the question whether a person is required to seek employment actively or is to be treated as seeking employment actively cannot be immediately determined; and

regulation 5 provides that where certain specified amounts are applicable to a claimant for income support, any changes in those amounts are to be taken into account on a review by the adjudicating authorities and section 64A of the Social Security Act 1986 (which applies generally where the component rates of income support are altered) is not to apply to those awards. Section 64A was inserted in the Social Security Act 1986 by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24) section 18(1).