Regulation 8 Amendment of the Child Benefit (Residence and Persons Abroad) Regulations 1976

in regulation 8(2)(a) for the reference to “ regulation 21 of the Child Benefit (Determination of Claims and Questions) Regulations 1976” there shall be substituted a reference to “ regulation 80 of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984”; and

for paragraph (3) of regulation 8 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3)

in paragraph (2) `determining authority' means, as the case may be, the Chief Adjudication Officer appointed under section 97(1B) of the Social Security Act 1975, any other adjudication officer appointed under section 97(1) of that Act, a social security appeal tribunal constituted under section 97(2) to (2E) of that Act, the Chief or any other Social Security Commissioner appointed under section 97(3) of that Act or a tribunal of 3 such Commissioners constituted under section 116 of that Act; ”