{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-and-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-and-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/174",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work and Severe Disablement Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-and-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 10(1) of the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 (adjudication)—\n(a) sub-paragraph (a) shall be omitted;\n(b) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(b) evidence that on that day he is or was entitled to the highest rate of the care component of disability living allowance prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) and (4)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act;”;\n(c) for sub-paragraph (f) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(f) evidence that on that day he is or was certified as blind and in consequence is registered as blind in a register maintained by, or on behalf of, a Health and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No. 317; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1992 No. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/174/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:27.819047+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."
}