Regulation 4 Amendment of regulation 6 of the Claims and Payments Regulations

Regulation 6 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (date of claim) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

In paragraph (1) for the words “Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4)” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraphs (3), (4) and (5)”.

After paragraph (4) there shall be added the following paragraph–

“(5)

Where a person submits a claim for attendance allowance by post and the arrival of that claim at an appropriate office is delayed by postal disruption caused by industrial action, whether within the postal service or elsewhere, the claim shall be treated as received on the day on which it would have been received if it had been delivered in the ordinary course of post.”.