Regulation 2 Amendment of Regulation 3 of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983

In regulation 3 of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983^f1(persons deemed to be incapable of work) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3)

Subject to paragraph (4), a person who is suffering from some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement but who, by reason only of the fact that he has done some work while so suffering, is found not to be incapable of work, may be deemed to be so incapable if that work is—

(a)

either—

(i)

work which is undertaken under medical supervision as part of his treatment while he is a patient in or of a hospital or similar institution, or

(ii)

work which is not so undertaken and which he has good cause for doing,

and from which, in either case, his earnings do not exceed £43.00 in the week in which that work is performed; or

(b)

work undertaken as a volunteer for less than 16 hours in the week in which it is performed.”.