The Social Security (Child Benefit Consequential) Regulations 1977

Amendment of the Social Security (Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Regulations 1975

16.  In the Social Security (Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension) Regulations 1975, as amended(1), for paragraph (2) of regulation 3 (conditions relating to residence and presence) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) or (b) notwithstanding that on any day a person is absent from Great Britain he shall be treated as though he were present in Great Britain if his absence is by reason only of the fact that on that day—

(a) he is abroad in his capacity as—

(i) a serving member of the forces within the meaning of the definition of `serving member of the forces' in regulation 1(2) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1975, as amended(2), or

(ii) an airman or mariner within the meaning of regulation 72 and regulation 77 respectively of those Regulations; or

(b) he is in prescribed employment in connection with continental shelf operations within the meaning of regulation 76 of those Regulations; or

(c) he is living with a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)(i) and is the spouse, son, daughter, father, father-in-law, mother or mother-in-law of that person.”.

(1)

There is no amendment relevant to the subject matter of these regulations.

(2)

The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1975/1855, 1976/1, 507 (1975 III, p. 6953; 1976 I, pp. 1; 1480).