{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1992/36",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 1 of the principal regulations (interpretation) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) in the definition of “adjudicating authority” for “the Attendance Allowance Board, a medical appeal tribunal” there shall be substituted “a medical appeal tribunal, a disability appeal tribunal”;\n(b) the definition of “the Attendance Allowance Board” shall be omitted;\n(c) after the definition of “the Department” there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““disability appeal tribunal” means a tribunal constituted in accordance with Schedule 10A to the 1975 Act;\n“disability question” has the meaning assigned by regulation 26C(2);”;\n(d) in the definition of “full-time chairman” for “and medical appeal tribunals” there shall be substituted “, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals”;\n(e) in the definition of “party to the proceedings” in paragraph (b) after “appeal tribunal” there shall be inserted “or a disability appeal tribunal”; and\n(f) in the definition of “President” for “and medical appeal tribunals” there shall be substituted “, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals”.\n(3) Paragraph (4) shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 15; Schedule 10A was inserted by paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1712 (N.I. 17))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See paragraph 1A(1) of Schedule 10 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 which was substituted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance (Northern Ireland) Order 1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1992/36/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:58:47.491723+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."
}