The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals), Vaccine Damage Payments and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Amendment of regulation 6

7.  In regulation 6 (supersession of decisions)—

(a) for sub-paragraph (f) of paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(f) is a decision that a jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a claimant where that allowance ceases to be payable by virtue of section 19(1) of the Jobseekers Act;”;

and

(b) after sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (6) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(c) the fact that a person has become terminally ill, within the meaning of section 66(2)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, unless an application for supersession which contains an express statement that the person is terminally ill is made either by—

(i) the person himself; or

(ii) any other person purporting to act on his behalf whether or not that other person is acting with his knowledge or authority;

and where such an application is received a decision may be so superseded nothwithstanding that no claim under section 66(1) or, as the case may be, 72(5) or 73(12) of that Act has been made.”.