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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-regulations-1983/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1598",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-unemployment-sickness-and-invalidity-benefit-regulations-1983",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations are made for the purposes only of consolidating the Regulations hereby revoked and accordingly, by virtue of paragraph 20 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1980, no reference of them has been made to the Social Security Advisory Committee.\nThe Regulations contain provisions relating to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit and invalidity benefit under the Social Security Act 1975.\nThe Regulations contain provisions relating to payment of the above benefits. The principal matters dealt with are the provisions relating to persons deemed to be incapable of work; special provisions relating to a day substituted for Sunday; the position of nightworkers; suspension of employment; days which are or are not to be treated as days of unemployment or incapacity for work; days which are treated as days of incapacity for work for the purposes of invalidity allowance; the deeming of lifeboatmen, part-time firemen, persons undertaking duties in an emergency and certain other persons (regulations 9 to 12) as available for employment; reckoning of periods of interruption of employment; provisions relating to delay or failure in claiming benefit; disqualification for sickness or invalidity benefit; partial satisfaction of contribution conditions and reduced rates of benefit; and miscellaneous provisions relating to modification of the normal idle day rule. The Regulations include special provisions for persons who have paid Class 1 contributions whilst abroad and additional conditions relating to the receipt of unemployment benefit by seasonal workers in their off-season and by students.\nThese Regulations also incorporate in regulation 15 the provisions of the Social Security (Days of Incapacity for Work) Regulations 1982, which modified section 17(1)(d) of the Social Security Act 1975, as amended, in relation to treatment by way of haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis for chronic renal failure, plasmapheresis, chemotherapy with cytotoxic drugs or radiotherapy. The Regulations also incorporate in Part III the Social Security (Unemployment Benefit) (Abatement for Occupational Pension Payments) Regulations 1981, which provided for the abatement of unemployment benefit for persons over 60 who are also in receipt of payments by way of occupational pension for the same week. Also the Regulations incorporate in Part IV the provisions of the Social Security (Abolition of Injury Benefit) (Consequential) Regulations 1983, insofar as those provisions directly relate to entitlement to sickness benefit or invalidity pension in respect of industrial injury, namely, regulations 14, 15 and 16 of those regulations (sickness benefit and invalidity pension in respect of industrial injury in relation to persons over pensionable age and restriction on entitlement to invalidity pension by virtue of section 50A of the Social Security Act 1975, respectively).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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