Regulation 5 Claims for sickness benefit or invalidity benefit made on or after the appointed day

Where a claim for sickness benefit or invalidity benefit is made on or after the appointed day in respect of a period of incapacity before the appointed day, the provisions in regulation 19 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to, the Claims and Payments Regulations^f1 (time for claiming benefit) in operation on the appointed day shall be read as if the reference to incapacity benefit were a reference to sickness benefit or invalidity benefit.