Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal regulations8

Regulation 8 of the principal regulations (certificates of exemption—application and issue) is amended as follows:

a

in paragraph (1)—

i

for “Health Authority” there is substituted “Secretary of State”; and

ii

for “Department of Social Security” there is substituted “Ministry of Defence”;

b

in paragraph (2)—

i

for “A Health Authority” there is substituted “The Secretary of State”; and

ii

after “be valid” there is inserted “from the first day of the month in which the Secretary of State received the application made under paragraph (1)”; and

c

for paragraph (3) there is substituted—

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The Secretary of State, on being satisfied that an applicant, not being a person entitled to exemption under the provisions of regulation 7(1)(a), (b) or (c), is entitled to exemption under regulation 7(1)(e) shall issue to the applicant an exemption certificate which shall be valid—

a

from the first day of the month in which the Secretary of State received the application made under paragraph (1); and

b

for such period as the Secretary of State may determine.