{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-regulations-1984/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-regulations-1984/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1303",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-regulations-1984",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which a person over the age of 65 is to be treated as having been entitled to a severe disablement allowance immediately before attaining that age",
  "text": "A person who has attained the age of 65 shall for the purposes of section 36(4)(d) of the Act be treated as having been entitled to a severe disablement allowance immediately before attaining that age if immediately before attaining it—\n(a) he would have satisfied the conditions for entitlement to that allowance or to a non-contributory invalidity pension but for the provisions of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979, or\n(b) he was entitled to a non-contributory invalidity pension.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 and heading substituted (28.10.1994) by The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance and Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2556), regs. 1, 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1303/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:33:36.542036+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."
}