Statutory Instruments
SOCIAL SECURITY
Made
7th May 1992
Laid before Parliament
8th May 1992
Coming into force
1st June 1992
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by the enactments specified in the Schedule to these Regulations and now vested in him(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with the Lord Advocate and, in accordance with section 10 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971(2), with the Council on Tribunals, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Commissioners Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st June 1992.
2. In regulation 2 of the Social Security Commissioners Procedure Regulations 1987(3), for the definition of “appeal tribunal” there shall be substituted the following—
““appeal tribunal” means a social security appeal tribunal constituted in accordance with section 97(2) to (2E) of the Act or a disability appeal tribunal constituted in accordance with Schedule 10A to the Act;”
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
7th May 1992
Section 6 of the National Insurance Act 1974(4)
Sections 101(5A), 101(5B), 114(1), 114(2C), 114(5) and 115(1) of the Social Security Act 1975(5)
Section 14 of the Social Security Act 1980(6)
Section 4 of the Forfeiture Act 1982(7)
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Social Security Commissioners Procedure Regulations 1987 by extending the definition of “appeal tribunal” to include a disability appeal tribunal constituted in accordance with Schedule 10A to the Social Security Act 1975. Schedule 10A was inserted into the Social Security Act 1975 by paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21).
By virtue of the Transfer of Functions (Social Security Commissioners) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/1818) and paragraph 20 of Schedule 5 to the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50).
S.I. 1987/214.
1974 c. 14; section 6 was amended by the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18) Schedule 2,paragraph 70; the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60) Schedule 4, paragraph 35; the Child Benefit Act 1975 (c. 61)Schedule 4, paragraph 85; the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c. 24) Schedule 4, paragraph 7; the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) Schedule 11; and section 3 of the Statutory Sick Pay Act 1991(c. 3).
1975 c. 14; sections 101(5A) and (5B) were inserted by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) Schedule 5, paragraph 7(3); section 101(5A) was amended by the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21)Schedule 1, paragraph 6(b). See the definitions of “prescribe” and “regulations” in the 1975 Act, Schedule 20. The definition of “regulations” was substituted by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) Schedule 5, paragraph 20.