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The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 8, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

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Article 4(4)

SCHEDULE 4AMENDMENT OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY (CLAIMS AND PAYMENTS) REGULATIONS 1979

1.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) the definition of “determining authority” shall be omitted.

2.  In regulation 26 (obligations of claimants for, and beneficiaries in receipt of, disablement benefit)—

(a)in paragraph (1)—

(i)in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “medical authority” there shall be substituted the words “medical practitioner who has experience in the issues specified in regulation 12(1) of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999(1)”, and

(ii)in sub-paragraph (b) the words from “or by any” to the end of the sub-paragraph shall be omitted;

(b)in paragraph (2) for the words from “to examination” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words “to examination before the expiration of the period of 6 days beginning with the date of the notice or such shorter period as may be reasonable in the circumstances”; and

(c)paragraph (4) shall be omitted.

(1)

S.I. 1999/991.

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