# The Social Security (Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1994, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 and the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984 by providing for persons who undertake voluntary work for less than16 hours a week.
Regulation 2 (relating to invalidity and sickness benefit) provides for such persons to be deemed incapable of work.
Regulation 3 provides that work undertaken as a volunteer for less than 16 hours a week shall be excluded from behaviour which disqualifies a person for receiving severe disablement allowance.
These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1101/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-and-severe-disablement-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1994/note
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