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Amendment of Schedule 6

27.  In Schedule 6 (days for payment of long term benefits)–

(a)for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

Attendance allowance and disability living allowance

1.  Subject to the provisions of regulation 25 (payment of attendance allowance, constant attendance allowance and the care component of a disability living allowance at a daily rate) attendance allowance shall be payable on Mondays and disability living allowance shall be payable on Wednesdays, except that the Secretary of State may in any particular case arrange for either allowance to be payable on any other day of the week and where it is in payment to any person and the day on which it is payable is changed, it shall be paid at a daily rate of 1/7th of the weekly rate in respect of any of the days for which payment would have been made but for that change.;

(b)paragraph 7 shall be omitted.