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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 (“the Prescribed Diseases Regulations”), the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (“the Claims and Payments Regulations”), the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (“the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations”), the Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the Departure Direction Regulations”) and the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (“the Decisions and Appeals Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends the Prescribed Diseases Regulations in consequence of the changes to the decision-making process for social security introduced by the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (“the Order”).\nRegulation 3 amends the Claims and Payments Regulations to provide that in cases where an award of benefit has the effect of making another relevant benefit payable or payable at an increased rate, the periods of entitlement to the two benefits shall be the same in the circumstances specified.\nRegulations 4 and 5 respectively amend the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations and the Departure Direction Regulations to provide for the effective date of a superseding decision on a change of circumstances where a child ceases to be a qualifying child.\nRegulation 6 amends the Decisions and Appeals Regulations to make provision as regards—\nthe power to revise or supersede a decision;\nthe effective date of a superseding decision in specified circumstances;\nthe disapplication of Article 9(2) of the Order to cases where there is a recrudescence of a prescribed disease;\nwhen an appeal is pending for the purposes of Article 21(3)(c) of the Order;\nthe time when payments of benefit which have been suspended shall be payable;\nthe right of appeal against a decision made on a percentage assessment of disability in industrial injury benefit cases;\nthe discontinuation of action on an appeal in certain circumstances;\nthe composition of an appeal tribunal;\nthe decision taken by a legally qualified panel member whether to withhold medical advice and evidence from a claimant;\nthe striking out of appeals;\npersons entitled to be present at an appeal tribunal hearing;\nwhen a statement of the reasons for a decision is to be recorded;\ncalculation of the time for applying for a statement of the reasons for an appeal tribunal’s decision;\nthe correction by the clerk to an appeal tribunal or a legally qualified panel member of accidental errors in decisions;\nthe setting aside of a decision of an appeal tribunal on certain grounds;\nthe way in which certain time limits are to be calculated; and\nthe circumstances in which an application for leave to appeal may be determined by a legally qualified panel member.\nRegulation 7 makes consequential revocations.\nThese Regulations correspond to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Social Security in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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