Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1991/2740 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 6th April 1992.(2) In these Regulations–“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.Section 1(1A) of the Administration Act (requirement to state national insurance number) shall not apply to any claim for attendance allowance made or treated as made before 9th February 1998. he is F41habitually resident in F42the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, andhe is not a person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 or section 115 of that Act does not apply to him for the purposes of entitlement to attendance allowance by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000, andhe is present in Great Britain, andhe has been present in Great Britain for a period of, or for periods amounting in the aggregate to, not less than F43104 weeks in the F44156 weeks immediately preceding that day; .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .a serving member of the forces,an airman or mariner within the meaning of regulations F45111 and 115 respectively of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations F462001,he is in employment prescribed for the purposes of section 132 of the Act in connection with continental shelf operations he is living with a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) (i) and is the spouse, F31civil partner, son, daughter, step-son, step-daughter, father, father-in-law, step-father, mother, mother-in-law or step-mother of that person; orhe is temporarily absent from Great Britain and that absence has not lasted for a continuous period exceeding 13 weeks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) Where a person is terminally ill and makes a claim for attendance allowance expressly on the ground that he is such a person, paragraph (1) shall apply to him as if head (iii) of sub-paragraph (a) was omitted.he is resident outside Great Britain in his capacity as a serving member of the forces and for this purpose “serving member of the forces” has the meaning given in regulation 1(2) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001; orhe is living with a person mentioned in paragraph (a) and is the spouse, civil partner, son, daughter, step-son, step-daughter, father, father-in-law, step-father, mother, mother-in-law or step-mother of that person.this absence is solely in connection with arrangements made for the medical treatment of him for a disease or bodily or mental disablement which commenced before he left Great Britain; andoutside Great Britain,during the period whilst he is temporarily absent from Great Britain, andby, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment, and(3C) For the purpose of paragraph (2) (d) and (3B) a person is “temporarily absent” if, at the beginning of the period of absence, that absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks.(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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