{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Appeal to a disability appeal tribunal",
  "text": "(1) The claimant may appeal to a disability appeal tribunal from a decision of an adjudication officer under section 28(1) of the Administration Act in any case in which there arises—\n(a) a disability question; or\n(b) both a disability question and any other question relating to attendance allowance, disability living allowance or disability working allowance.\n(2) In this regulation “disability question” means a question as to—\n(a) whether the claimant satisfies the conditions for entitlement to—\n(i) the care component of a disability living allowance specified in section 72(1) and (2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act,\n(ii) the mobility component of a disability living allowance specified in section 73(1), (8) and (9) of that Act,\n(iii) an attendance allowance specified in sections 64 and 65(1) of that Act, or\n(iv) a disability working allowance specified in section 128(1)(b) of that Act;\n(b) the period throughout which the claimant is likely to satisfy the conditions for entitlement to attendance allowance or disability living allowance;\n(c) the rate at which attendance allowance is payable; or\n(d) the rate at which the care component or the mobility component of a disability living allowance is payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 128(1) was amended by Article 12(2) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/24",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) and Child Support (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/293/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:40:24.950980+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."
}