PART 4Administrative Provisions

CHAPTER 2The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

Amendment of regulation 7A34

1

Regulation 7A M1 (definitions etc.) is amended as follows.

2

For the heading substitute “Definitions for the purposes of Chapters I and II”.

3

In paragraph (1)—

a

after the definition of “disability determination” insert—

“employment and support allowance decision” means a decision to award a relevant benefit or relevant credit embodied in or necessary to which is a determination that a person has or is to be treated as having limited capability for work under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act;

b

after the definition of “incapacity determination” insert—

“limited capability for work determination” means a determination whether a person has limited capability for work by applying the test of limited capability for work or whether a person is to be treated as having limited capability for work in accordance with regulation 20 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations;

c

in the definition of “payee” after “incapacity benefit decision” insert “ or “employment and support allowance decision” .