Amendment of Schedule 7
14.—(1) Schedule 7 (manner and time of payment, effective date of change of circumstances and commencement of entitlement in income support cases) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In sub–paragraph (b) of paragraph 2, for the words “sickness or invalidity benefit or severe disablement allowance and is not a person to whom section 23 of the Social Security Act 1986 (trade disputes) applies” there shall be substituted the words “incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance and is not a person to whom section 126 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (trade disputes) applies”.
(3) In paragraph 3–
(a)in sub–paragraph (1), after the words “Subject to” there shall be inserted the words “sub–paragraph (1A) and to”;
(b)after sub–paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following sub–paragraph–
“(1A) Subject to sub–paragraph (2), where income support is paid to a person on the grounds of incapacity for work, that entitlement commenced on or after 13th April 1995, and no relevant social security benefit is paid to that person, the income support shall be paid fortnightly in arrears.”.
(4) In paragraph 4, in the definition of “relevant social security benefit”, for the words “sickness benefit, invalidity benefit” there shall be substituted the words “incapacity benefit”.