The Social Security (Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Amendment of the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991

2.—(1) The Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 6(2A) (hospitalisation)(2) after the words “and to end on the day”, there shall be inserted “before the day”.

(3) In sub-paragraph (b)(ii) of regulation 7A(2) (persons to whom regulations 7 and 8 apply with modifications)(3) for the words “paragraphs (4) to (7)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (4) to (6)”.

(4) In regulation 8 (exemption from regulations 6 and 7)(4)—

(a) in paragraph (4) the words “except in a case to which paragraph (7) applies” shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (6) the words “except in a case to which paragraph (7) applies” shall be omitted; and

(c) paragraph (7) shall be omitted.

(1)

S.I. 1991/2740.

(2)

Regulation 6 was amended by regulation 2 of S.I. 1992/2869 and paragraph (2A) was inserted by regulation 3 of S.I. 1999/1326.

(3)

Regulation 7A was inserted by regulation 2(3) of S.I. 1994/1779 and was amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 1999/2860.

(4)

Paragraphs (4) to (6) were added to regulation 8 by regulation 8(2)(b) of S.I. 1992/3147 and words were inserted into paragraphs (4), (5) and (6) by regulation 2(3) of S.I. 1993/518. Paragraph (4) was amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to S.I. 1999/2860. Paragraph (6) was amended by regulation 10 of S.I. 1996/1345 and paragraph (7) was added to regulation 8 by regulation 2(3)(d) of S.I. 1993/518.