{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1991/333",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1991",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Substitution of regulation 10A of the principal regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 10A of the principal regulations (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as having qualified for severe disablement allowance) there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“10A —\n(1) A person shall be treated, for the purposes of section 36A of the Act (which applies to an age related addition in a severe disablement allowance), as having qualified for severe disablement allowance—\n(a) where he is a person to whom regulation 19 (persons formerly entitled to non-contributory invalidity pension) applies, on the first day of incapacity for work in a period of not less than 196 consecutive days of incapacity for work which immediately preceded the day on which he was first entitled to a non-contributory invalidity pension;\n(b) where he is a person who qualified for severe disablement allowance by virtue of section 36(3)(b) of the Act and was incapable of work on each day in a period which immediately preceded the period of not less than 196 consecutive days mentioned in that subsection, on the first day of incapacity for work in the period first mentioned; or\n(c) where he is a person to whom regulation 6 (modification of section 36(2) and (3) of the Act etc.) applies, on the first day of incapacity for work in a period of not less than 196 consecutive days of incapacity which immediately preceded the first day on which he was previously entitled to a severe disablement allowance.\n(2) Where in any particular case a person satisfies the requirements of two or more sub-paragraphs in paragraph (1), he shall be treated as having qualified for severe disablement allowance in accordance with that sub-paragraph which produces the earlier or earliest day in his case.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 36A was inserted by Article 4(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1511 (N.I. 15))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/333/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:01:26.738650+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."
}