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5.—(1) The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 7(2) (days for which persons are to be regarded as incapable of work for the purposes of severe disablement allowance), after paragraph (1A) (night workers) there shall be inserted—
“(1B) For the purposes of severe disablement allowance, a person shall be treated as incapable of work on any day in a period, consisting of a cumulative number of days of incapacity for work not exceeding 91 days in total for which he makes a claim for severe disablement allowance, beginning within a linking term and ending on a day not later than 13 weeks from the end of that linking term in respect of which he has been determined to be a person who is a welfare to work beneficiary; and in this paragraph “linking term” and “welfare to work beneficiary” have the meanings given in regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995 (welfare to work beneficiary).”.
(3) In regulation 10(3) (adjudication)–
(a)after paragraph (1)(h) there shall be inserted–
“(hh)subject to paragraph (2B) and during the period referred to in regulation 7(1B), evidence that he has been determined on that day to be a welfare to work beneficiary in accordance with regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995;”;
(b)after paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted–
“(2B) Paragraph (1)(hh) shall not apply to a welfare to work beneficiary who, in his immediate past period of incapacity for work within the meaning of regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995, was not assessed to be disabled in accordance with section 68(6) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.”.
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