1986 No. 1545
The Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1986
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into Operation
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 51(1), 131, 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 19751 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by both the Social Security Advisory Committee and the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council that proposals to make these regulations should not be referred to them 2, hereby makes the following regulations:—
Citation, interpretation and commencement1
These regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1986, amend the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 19753 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”) and shall come into operation on 1st October 1986.
Amendment of regulation 2(1)(bb) of the principal regulations2
In regulation 2(1)(bb)4 of the principal regulations for the words “only of sickness benefit”
there shall be substituted the words “of sickness benefit and invalidity benefit”
.
Amendment of regulation 10C of the principal regulations3
At the end of regulation 10C of the principal regulations there shall be added the following paragraphs:—
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Where on or after 1st October 1986 a person to whom this paragraph applies sustains an accident arising out of, and in the course of, his employment, or contracts a prescribed disease due to the nature of his employment, such employment shall for the purposes of Chapters IV and V of Part II of the Act (benefit for industrial injuries and diseases) be treated as employed earner's employment notwithstanding that he is employed outside Great Britain, and any benefit which would be payable under those chapters but for the provisions of section 50(5) of the Act and regulation 14 of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 shall be payable from the date of his return to Great Britain notwithstanding that the accident happened or the disease was contracted while he was outside it.
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Paragraph (5) applies to any person in respect of whom Class 1 contributions are payable by virtue of regulation 120 of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 or who is paying Class 2 (volunteer development workers) contributions under Case G of those regulations 5.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.