{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-1995/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-1995/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1801",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Notification of decisions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 55, the decision of an adjudication officer on any claim or question and the reasons for it shall be notified in writing to the claimant who shall at the same time be informed—\n(a) in the case of a decision of an adjudication officer—\n(i) under section 21 of the Administration Act relating to attendance allowance, disability living allowance or disability working allowance, or\n(ii) on a review under section 30(2) or (4) or section 35 of the Administration Act, of his right to a review under section 30(1) of that Act;\n(b) in the case of a decision of an adjudication officer under section 30(1) of that Act, of his right of appeal—\n(i) to a disability appeal tribunal where the appeal relates to the determination of a disability question, and\n(ii) to an appeal tribunal in any other case;\n(c) in all other cases, of his right of appeal to an appeal tribunal under section 22 of that Act.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to a decision (other than a decision given on review) awarding benefit for a period which begins immediately after a period in respect of which the claimant had been awarded benefit of the same kind and at the same rate as that awarded by the first-mentioned decision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 10.8.1995, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1801/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:46.300792+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."
}