# The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991, Regulation 3: Substitution of regulation 10A of the principal regulations


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—
“10A —
(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—
(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;
(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
(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.
(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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/333/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-3
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