PART XIIA INCAPACITY FOR WORK
F1167F Incapacity for work: work as councillor to be disregarded.
(1)
In determining whether a person is capable or incapable of work, there shall be disregarded any work which that person has undertaken as a councillor.
(2)
For this purpose “councillor” means a member of a district council.
(3)
The reference in subsection (1) above to the work which a person undertakes as a councillor shall be taken to include any work which he undertakes as a member of any body established under any statutory provision of which he is a member by virtue of his being a councillor.
(4)
In making any such determination as is mentioned in subsection (1) above a person shall be treated as having been incapable of work on any day which falls in the pre-commencement period and which—
(a)
would have been treated as a day on which he was so incapable, were there disregarded any work which he undertook (or was capable of undertaking) as a councillor; but
(b)
would not have been so treated apart from this subsection.
The “pre-commencement period” means the period beginning with 11th May 1987 and ending immediately before 9th October 1989 (the coming into operation of paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, which made provision corresponding to the provision made by this section).