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PART IIICONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS

Amendment of the Social (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1975

F115.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of Part VI of the Social Security (Determination of Claims and Questions) Regulations 1975

F216.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1975

F317.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of the National Insurance (Graduated Retirement Benefit and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1961

F418.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975

19.  The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975(1) shall be amended by the insertion of the following regulation after regulation 7:—

Credits for invalid care allowance

7A.(1) For the purposes of entitlement to any benefit by virtue of a person's contributions he shall, subject to paragraph (2), be entitled to a Class I credit in respect of each week for any part of which an invalid care allowance is paid to him, or in the case of a widow, would have been so payable but for the provisions of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1975, as amended by the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976, requiring adjustment of an invalid care allowance against widow's benefit or benefit by virtue of section 39(4) corresponding to a widowed mother's allowance or a widow's pension.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply—

(a)to a person in respect of any week where he is entitled to a Class 1 credit under regulation 9 in respect of the same week; or

(b)to a woman in respect of any week in any part of which she was a married woman in respect of whom an election made by her under regulations made under section 130(2) had effect..

Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975

20.  In the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975(2), after regulation 10A, added to those regulations by regulation 10 of the Mobility Allowance Regulations 1975(3), there shall be added the following regulation:—

Modification of the Act in relation to invalid care allowance

10B.  A person shall not be disqualified for receiving an invalid care allowance by reason of being absent from Great Britain..

Amendment of the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1974

F521.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1)

(1975 I, p. 1941).

(2)

(1975 I, p. 2052).

(3)

(1975 III, p. 5450).