The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions Regulations 1986

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

4.  In regulation 9 of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975(1)—

(a)in paragraph (3), for the words “disablement benefit (other than any increase under sections 58 to 63 or 66 of the Act)” there shall be substituted the words “disablement benefit (other than any increase thereof under sections 58, 59, 61, 62, 63 or 66 of the Act)”;

(b)in paragraph (5), for the words “an increase of disablement pension in respect of special hardship under section 60 of the Act”, there shall be substituted the words “reduced earnings allowance under section 59A of the Act,” and for the words, in respectively sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), “such increase” there shall be substituted the words “such allowance”.

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The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1977/1679 and 1983/186.