The Social Fund (Application for Review) Regulations 1988

Manner of making application for review or further review and time limits

2.—(1) Any application for—

(a) a review of any determination made by a social fund officer;

(b) a further review by a social fund inspector of a determination of a social fund officer which has been reviewed,

shall be in writing and shall be made within the time specified in paragraph (2) by sending or delivering it to an office of the Department of Health and Social Security.

(2) The time specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) is—

(a) in the case of an application to which paragraph (1)(a) applies, 28 days from the date on which the determination to which that application relates was issued;

(b) in the case of an application to which paragraph (1)(b) applies, 28 days from the date on which the determination on review was issued.

(3) The time specified in paragraph (2) may be extended for special reasons, even though the time so specified may already have expired, by the social fund officer or, as the case may be, the social fund inspector.

(4) The application for review or, as the case may be, further review shall contain particulars of the specific grounds on which it is made and shall be signed by the person making the application.

(5) Where it appears to the social fund officer or, as the case may be, the social fund inspector that a person has submitted an application which is incomplete in that it contains insufficient particulars to enable any material question to be determined, he may request that person to furnish within a specified time such further particulars as may be reasonably required to complete the application; and if the person does so the application shall be treated as having been made within the time specified in paragraph (2) or, as the case may be, extended under paragraph (3).

(6) Where the application is made on behalf of a person to whom the determination relates, that person shall signify in writing his consent to the application being made on his behalf.

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (2) the date on which a determination or a determination on review is issued is the date on which notice of that determination was given or sent to the applicant for review or further review and, if sent by post to the applicant’s last known or notified address, that notice shall be treated for the purposes of this regulation as having been sent on the day that it was posted.