The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982
PART IGENERAL
1Citation, commencement and interpretation
2Exceptions from disqualification for imprisonment etc
3Suspension of payment of benefit during imprisonment etc
4Interim payments by way of benefit under the Act
5Deduction of benefit required to be repaid
6Set-off of benefit against earlier payment of dependency benefit
7Repayment by a person who has received payment of benefit on behalf of a beneficiary
8Rounding of sums payable by way of benefit
PART IIPROVISIONS RELATING TO BENEFIT OTHER THAN INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT
9Payments of benefit and suspension of payments pending a decision on appeals or references, arrears and repayments
10Disqualifications to be disregarded for certain purposes
PART IIIPROVISIONS RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT ONLY
PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSMENT
11Further definition of the principles of assessment of disablement and prescribed degrees of disablement
...DISABLEMENT BENEFIT
12Injury benefit payable to persons who have not attained school-leaving age
13Day not treated as day of incapacity for work
14Amount of disablement gratuities
15Weekly value of gratuity for purposes of reduction of increase of disablement benefit during hospital treatment
16Earnings level for the purpose of unemployability supplement under section 58 of the Act
INCREASE OF ... DISABLEMENT BENEFIT
17Circumstances in which, for the purposes of section 60, a beneficiary may be treated as being incapable of following an occupation or employment notwithstanding that he has worked thereat
18Payments in respect of special hardship where beneficiary is entitled to a gratuity
19Increase of disablement pension for constant attendance
20Determination of degree of disablement for constant attendance allowance
21Condition for receipt of increase of disablement pension for constant attendance under section 61 while receiving medical treatment as an in-patient
22Treatment of distinct periods of hospital in-patient treatment as continuous for the purposes of section 62 of the Act
INDUSTRIAL DEATH BENEFIT
23Widow's pension
24Additional entitlement to higher permanent rate of widow's pension under section 67
25Widows to be treated as entitled to a pension for the purposes of right to a remarriage gratuity
26Death benefit for relatives
27Death benefit under section 72 for a posthumous son or daughter
28Calculation of the amount of parent's or relative's gratuity
29Application of limits imposed on death gratuities by Schedule 9 to the Act
30Death within prescribed period
31Priority of title to allowance or allowances under section 70
32Circumstances in which higher rate of allowance under section 70(2) is payable to a person other than the widow of the deceased
33Circumstances in which a deceased person who was not entitled to child benefit is to be treated as having been so entitled for the purposes of sections 70 or 73
34Circumstances in which a deceased person is to be treated as not having been entitled to child benefit for the purposes of sections 68 or 70
35Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as if he were entitled to child benefit for the purposes of section 70
36Circumstances in which a person entitled to child benefit is to be treated as if he were not so entitled
37Provisions as to maintenance for purposes of death benefit
ADJUSTMENT OF BENEFIT FOR SUCCESSIVE ACCIDENTS
38Adjustment of benefit for successive accidents where a disablement gratuity is payable
39Adjustment of increase of benefit in respect of successive accidents
DISQUALIFICATION FOR RECEIPT OF BENEFIT AND SUSPENSION OF BENEFIT PENDING APPEALS ETC
40Disqualification for receipt of benefit, suspension of proceedings on claims and suspension of payment of benefit
41Suspension of payment of benefit pending appeals or references
PAYMENTS UNDER THE ACT TO CERTAIN PERSONS WHO CONTRACTED DISEASES OR WERE INJURED BEFORE 5 JULY 1948
42Payments by way of unemployability supplement and increases for children and adult dependants for persons entitled to Workmen's Compensation
43Payments in respect of the need of constant attendance and in respect of exceptionally severe disablement for persons entitled to Workmen's Compensation
44Payment by way of unemployability supplement and in respect of the need of constant attendance and in respect of exceptionally severe disablement to certain former constables and firemen
45Application of the provisions of the Act and regulations
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
46Conditions relating to payment of additional benefit under awards made before the day appointed for an increase of benefit under any Act amending the Act or under any up-rating order
PART IV
47Revocation and transitional provisions
SCHEDULE IProvisions for the purpose of which disqualifications under the Act are to be disregarded
SCHEDULE 2PRESCRIBED DEGREES OF DISABLEMENT
SCHEDULE 3SCALE OF DISABLEMENT GRATUITIES
SCHEDULE 4RATE OF DISABLEMENT PENSION PAYABLE IN LIEU OF DISABLEMENT GRATUITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION 18
SCHEDULE 5PRESCRIBED RELATIONSHIPS
SCHEDULE 6MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF GRATUITIES PAYABLE BY WAY OF DEATH BENEFIT TO PARENTS OR RELATIVES WHO WERE NOT WHOLLY MAINTAINED BY THE DECEASED
1The amount of any gratuity payable by way of death...
2The amount of any gratuity payable by way of death...
SCHEDULE 7PROVISIONS APPLYING THE LIMITS IMPOSED BY SCHEDULE 9 TO THE ACT ON THE AMOUNT PAYABLE BY WAY OF DEATH GRATUITIES
1The amount of £78.00 in the case of parents' gratuities...
2Where the amount ascertained under paragraph (1) in relation to...
3Where there is only one relative who is by virtue...
4Where there are two or more relatives each of whom...
5Where, in respect of any death, a parent or relative...
6Where any sum has been repaid or recovered in respect...
SCHEDULE 8ORDER OF PRIORITY OF TITLE TO ALLOWANCES UNDER SECTION 70
1Such person as may be designated in a written notice...
2A person who, not being entitled to death benefit as...
3A person who is entitled to death benefit in respect...
4Such person as the Secretary of State may in his...
SCHEDULE 9REGULATIONS REVOKED

1982 No. 1408

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into Operation

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 50(4), 56(7), 57(5), 58(3), 60(4) and (7), 61(1), 62(2), 67(1), 68(2), 70(2), 72(1) and (8), 74(1), 81(6), 82(5) and (6), 83(1), 85(1), 86(2) and (5), 90(2), 91(1), 119(3) and (4) and 159(3) of, and paragraphs 2, 3 and 6 of Schedule 8, paragraphs 1 and 8 of Schedule 9 and Schedule 14 of the Social Security Act 19751 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations, which only consolidate the regulations hereby revoked, and which accordingly, by virtue of paragraph 20 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1980, are not subject to the requirements of section 10 of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee and, by virtue of section 141(2) and paragraph 12 of Schedule 16 of the Social Security Act 1975, do not require prior reference to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council:—