The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Consequential and Transitional Amendments and Savings) Regulations 1995

Amendment of the Mariners' Benefits Regulations

4.—(1) The Mariners' Benefits Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 4 (removal of disqualification for receiving benefit by reason of absence from Great Britain) for the words “sickness benefit, invalidity benefit in both places where they occur” there shall be substituted the words “incapacity benefit”.

(3) In regulation 5 (evidence of unemployment or incapacity) for the words “sickness benefit, invalidity benefit” there shall be substituted the words “incapacity benefit”.

(4) In regulation 6(2) (special provisions relating to days of unemployment or incapacity for work in the case of mariners and share fishermen employed on board any ships or vessels) for the words “sickness benefit, invalidity benefit” there shall be substituted the words “incapacity benefit”.