# The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978, Regulation 9: Modification of the Act in relation to title to injury benefit and disablement benefit and industrial death benefit


(1) A person shall not be disqualified for receiving injury benefit by reason of being temporarily absent from Northern Ireland for any day if—
(a) the Department has certified that it is consistent with the proper administration of the Act that, subject to the satisfaction of the condition in sub-paragraph (b) below, the disqualification under section 82(5)(a) of the Act should not apply, and
(b) the absence is for the specific purpose of receiving treatment which is appropriate to the relevant injury.
(2) A person shall not be disqualified for receiving disablement benefit (other than any increase thereof under sections 58 to 63 or 66 of the Act) by reason of being absent from Northern Ireland.
(3) A person shall not be disqualified for receiving an increase of disablement pension in respect of the need for constant attendance under section 61, or under regulations made under section 150(3), or in respect of exceptionally severe disablement under section 63, of the Act, by reason of being temporarily absent from Northern Ireland during the period of 6 months from the date on which such absence commences or during such longer period as the Department may, having regard to the purpose of the absence and any other factors which appear to it to be relevant, allow.
(4) A person shall not be disqualified for receiving an increase of disablement pension in respect of special hardship under section 60 of the Act by reason of being temporarily absent from Northern Ireland during the period of 3 months from the date on which such absence commences or during such longer period as the Department may, having regard to the purpose of the absence and any other factors which appear to it to be relevant, allow, so however that—
(a) such absence or any part thereof is not for the purpose of or in connection with any employment, trade or business;
(b) a claim as a result of which a decision is given awarding such increase in respect of such period of absence or part thereof was made before the commencement of such absence; and
(c) the period taken into account by the award of such increase to that person either includes the day of commencement of such absence or follows a period so taken into account which includes that day without there being a break in entitlement by that person to such increase from that day.
(5) A person shall not be disqualified for receiving industrial death benefit by reason of being absent from Northern Ireland.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1978/114/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-persons-abroad-regulations-northern-ireland-1978/regulation-9
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