Contents
1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Payments and Adjudication) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 13th October 1997.
(2)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.
2Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations#
(1)
(2)In regulation 6 (date of claim) after paragraph (28) there shall be added the following paragraph—“29 In the case of a claim for an increase of severe disablement allowance or of invalid care allowance in respect of a child or adult dependant, paragraphs (16) and (21) shall apply to the claim as if it were a claim for severe disablement allowance or, as the case may be, invalid care allowance.”
(3)
(a)
(b)after sub-paragraph (g) there shall be added “or” and the following sub-paragraph—“h in the case of a claim for disability working allowance, the claimant had previously been entitled to income support, jobseeker’s allowance, incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance (“the previous benefit”), and the claim for disability working allowance was made within one month of expiry of entitlement to the previous benefit.”
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