EXPLANATORY NOTE
These Regulations modify and amplify the general provisions relating to benefit (other than industrial injuries benefit) of the Social Security Act 1975 and the regulations made thereunder, in their application to persons who are or have been employed under a contract of service on board aircraft. They remove, in certain circumstances, the statutory disqualification for the receipt of benefit for periods of absence from Great Britain (regulation 2), and provide for the extension, in certain circumstances, in the case of an airman employed as such outside the United Kingdom, of the time within which certain acts have to be performed for the purpose of the provisions of Part I of the Act and of regulations relating to benefit (regulation 3).
In so far as these regulations are made under the power conferred by section 129(1) of the Act, they only replace provisions of previous Regulations with new provisions to the same effect, and therefore, by virtue of section 167(2)(c) of the Act, are made without being laid before Parliament in draft under section 167(1) of the Act.