The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 11, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999

1.  As if in regulation 1(2)(1) (interpretation)—

(a) the definition of “adjudication officer” were omitted;

(b) for the definition of “Commissioner” there were substituted the following definition—

““Commissioner” means the Chief or any other Social Security Commissioner appointed in accordance with section 14(12) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1998 and includes a Tribunal of Commissioners constituted in accordance with section 16(7) of that Act;”; and

(c) for the definition of “tribunal” there were substituted the following definition—

““tribunal” means an appeal tribunal constituted under Chapter I of Part I of the Social Security Act 1998; and”.

(1)

There are amendments to regulation 1 which are not relevant to this Order.