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1(1)The functions of insurance officers appointed under the M1Social Security Act 1975, benefit officers appointed under the & M2middot;Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 and supplement officers appointed under the M3Family Income Supplements Act 1970 shall be exercised by officers to be called adjudication officers.
(2)The functions of local tribunals constituted under the Social Security Act 1975 and of Appeal Tribunals constituted under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 shall be exercised by tribunals to be called social security appeal tribunals.
(3)Accordingly—
(a)any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this paragraph shall have effect, so far as may be necessary in consequence of the changes made by this paragraph, as if—
(i)for any reference to an officer whose functions are transferred by subparagraph (1) above there were substituted a reference to an adjudication officer; and
(ii)for any reference to a tribunal whose functions are transferred by subparagraph (2) above there were substituted a reference to a social security appeal tribunal; and
(b)documents and forms printed or duplicated for use in connection with the officers and tribunals whose functions are so transferred may be used notwithstanding that they contain references to such officers and tribunals and those references shall be construed as references to adjudication officers and social security appeal tribunals.
(4)Without prejudice to the generality of subparagraph (3)(a) above the enactments specified in Parts II to V of this Schedule shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified.
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