These Regulations further amend the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975 (the 1975 Regulations).

Regulation 2 of the 1975 Regulations is amended so that the disqualification for receiving severe disablement allowance during an absence from Great Britain (imposed under section 82(5) of the Social Security Act 1975) is lifted where a person is living abroad with a member of the forces to whom e is related (regulation 2(2) and (3)).

Regulation 3 revokes regulations 3 and 7 of the 1975 Regulations together with regulation 13(4) of the Social Security (Child Benefit Consequential) Regulations 1977. These Regulations relate to maternity and death grants which were abolished under sections 38, 41 and 86 of and Schedule 11 to the Social Security Act 1986.