Article 20 Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978

(1)

The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2 (modification of the Act in relation to incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance, unemployability supplement and maternity allowance)—

(a)

in paragraph (1A)—

(i)

for “or personal independence payment” substitute “, personal independence payment”;

(ii)

after “2015” insert “or Scottish disability assistance”;

(b)

at the end of paragraph (4)(b) omit “and”;

(c)

after paragraph (4)(b) insert—

“(ba)

“Scottish disability assistance” means disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018^f2; and”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1978 No. 114; relevant amending instruments are S.R. 1994 Nos. 45 and 269, S.R. 1995 No. 150, S.R. 2005 No. 536, S.I. 2013/3021 and S.R. 2016 No. 228.
f2: 2018 asp 9.