# The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984, Regulation 10A: Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as having qualified for severe disablement allowance


(1) A person shall be treated for the purposes of section 36A of the Act (which applies an age related addition to a severe disablement allowance) as having qualified for severe disablement allowance–
(a) where he is a person to whom regulation 20 (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 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 subsection (3)(b) of section 36 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;
(c) where he is a person to whom regulation 6 (modification of section 36(2) and (3) of the Actetc) 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 subparagraphs in paragraph (1), then 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/uksi/1984/1303/regulation/10A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-regulations-1984/regulation-10A
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