Social Security Administration Act 1992

Section 123.

SCHEDULE 4 Persons employed in social security administration or adjudication

Part I The specified persons

Government departments

• A civil servant in—

  (a)

  the Department of Social Security;

  (b)

  the Department of Employment;

  (c)

  the Lord Chancellor’s Department.

Other public departments and offices

• A member or officer of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.

• A civil servant in the Scottish Courts Administration.

Adjudication officers

• The Chief Adjudication Officer.

• An adjudication officer.

Adjudicating bodies

• The clerk to, or other officer or member of the staff of, any of the following bodies—

  (a)

  a social security appeal tribunal;

  (b)

  a disability appeal tribunal;

  (c)

  a medical appeal tribunal;

  (d)

  a vaccine damage tribunal;

  (e)

  a Pensions Appeal Tribunal constituted under the [1943 c. 39.] Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943.

The Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board

• A member of the Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board.

• An officer or servant of that Board.

The Occupational Pensions Board

• The chairman or deputy chairman of the Occupational Pensions Board.

• A member of that Board.

• A member of the staff of that Board.

The Social Fund

• The Social Fund Commissioner.

• A social fund officer.

• A social fund inspector.

• A member of any staff employed in connection with the social fund.

Former officers

• An officer or other member of the staff of—

  (a)

  the former Supplementary Benefits Commission;

  (b)

  the former National Assistance Board;

  (c)

  the former Attendance Allowance Board.

• A benefit officer.

• An insurance officer.

• A supplement officer.

Part II Construction of references to government departments etc.

1 The reference in Part I of this Schedule to the Department of Social Security includes a reference to—

(a) the former Department of Health and Social Security,

(b) the former Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance,

(c) the former Ministry of Social Security, and

(d) any other former government department,

but, in the case of paragraphs (a) and (d) above, only to the extent that the functions carried out in the former department related to social security or to occupational or personal pension schemes or to war pensions.

2 The reference in Part I of this Schedule to the Department of Employment is a reference to that Department only to the extent that the functions carried out in it relate to unemployment benefit or income support or related to the former supplementary benefit.

3 Any reference in Part I of this Schedule to the Lord Chancellor’s Department or the Scottish Courts Administration is a reference to that Department or Administration only to the extent that the functions carried out by persons in its employ are, or are connected with—

(a) functions of the Chief, or any other, Social Security Commissioner; or

(b) functions of the Council on Tribunals or the Scottish committee of that Council which relate to social security or to occupational or personal pension schemes or to war pensions.

4 The reference in Part I of this Schedule to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue is a reference to those Commissioners only to the extent that the functions carried out by them or any officer of theirs relate to—

(a) any of the following aspects of social security—

(i) National Insurance contributions;

(ii) statutory sick pay;

(iii) statutory maternity pay; or

(b) the tax treatment of occupational or personal pension schemes.

5 In this Part of this Schedule “war pension” has the meaning given by section 25(4) of the [1989 c. 24.] Social Security Act 1989.