Amendment of the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 19912

1

The Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 19914 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

2

In regulation 6(2A) (hospitalisation)5 after the words “and to end on the day”, there shall be inserted “before the day”.

3

In sub-paragraph (b)(ii) of regulation 7A(2) (persons to whom regulations 7 and 8 apply with modifications)6 for the words “paragraphs (4) to (7)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (4) to (6)”.

4

In regulation 8 (exemption from regulations 6 and 7)7

a

in paragraph (4) the words “except in a case to which paragraph (7) applies” shall be omitted;

b

in paragraph (6) the words “except in a case to which paragraph (7) applies” shall be omitted; and

c

paragraph (7) shall be omitted.