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19.—(1) Where a person who was entitled to a transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit becomes entitled to incapacity benefit by virtue of section 30C(5) of the 1992 Act M1 and the rate of that benefit is less than the rate at which the transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit would have been payable had he not ceased to be entitled to that award, incapacity benefit shall be payable at the latter rate until—
(a)in the case where the transitional award included an increase under regulation 24(1), the conditions in regulation 24(3) or any of the provisions referred to in regulation 25(2) are no longer satisfied;
(b)in any other case, the rate of long-term incapacity benefit under section 30B of the 1992 Act M2 together with any increase under section 86A of that Act (increase for adult dependants) M3 equals or exceeds that rate.
(2) Where a person—
(a)who was entitled to disability working allowance by virtue of section 129 of the 1992 Act before the appointed day or to disability working allowance at any time in a period of not more than 56 days beginning on or after the appointed day, becomes entitled to incapacity benefit; and
(b)would have become entitled to invalidity benefit by virtue of section 33(7) or section 42 of the 1992 Act had the 1994 Act not come into force; and
(c)the rate of incapacity benefit is less than the rate at which a transitional award of long-term incapacity benefit would have been payable had the days of entitlement to invalidity benefit in the period of interruption of employment which arose immediately before the period of entitlement to disability working allowance been days of entitlement to invalidity benefit in a period of interruption of employment running at the appointed day,
incapacity benefit shall be payable at the latter rate until, in the case where the transitional award would have included an increase under regulation 24(1), the conditions in regulation 24(3) or in any of the provisions referred to in regulation 25(2) are no longer satisfied, and in any other case, the rate of long-term incapacity benefit under section 30B of the 1992 Act together with any increase under section 86A of that Act equals or exceeds that rate.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the days of entitlement to disability working allowance referred to in that paragraph shall be treated as days of incapacity for work.
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M1Section 30C(5) was inserted into the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 by section 3(1) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994.
M2Section 30B was inserted into the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 by section 2(1) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994.
M3Section 86A was inserted into the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 by section 2(5) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994.
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