Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

4.  In regulation 3 (Making and acceptance of elections) –

(a) in sub-paragraph (3)(a), for the words “or while his earnings are reduced or have ceased” there shall be substituted “due to ill-health”;

(b) after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“(8) The Department shall notify in writing the person who has made an election under paragraph (1) of the Department’s acceptance of that election.”