Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1976/409
  • These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid
  • (1) In these Regulations, “the Contributions and Benefits Act" means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 .(2) Any reference in these regulations to(3) The rules for the construction of Acts
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  • to any claim for
  • to an adult dependant in respect of whom a claim for an increase of
  • is a person in respect of whom a claim for an increase of carer’s allowance is made;
  • is subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) (a) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; and
  • has not previously been allocated a national insurance number.
  • a payment under F36section 104 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (increase of disablementa payment such as is referred to in section 7(3) (b) ofa payment under regulation 44 of the Social Securitya payment by way of an allowance in respectretired pay, pensionany retired pay or pension toany payment which the Secretary(1) F30Subject to paragraph (1A) of this regulation, a person shall be treated as engaged(1A) A person who is caring for two or more severely disabled persons in a week shall be treated as engaged and regularly and substantially engaged in caring for a severely disabled person only where he is engaged and regularly engaged for at least 35 hours in that week in caring for any one severely disabled person, considered without reference to any other severely disabled person for whom he is caring.that he has only temporarily ceased tothat (disregarding the provisions of(1) For the purposes of F70section 70(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, a person shall be treated as receiving full-time education for any period during which he attends a course of education at a university, college, school or other educational establishment for twenty-one hours or more a week.there shall be included the time spent receiving instruction or tuition, undertaking supervised study, examination or practical work or taking part in any exercise, experiment or project for which provision is made in the curriculum of the course; andthere shall be excluded any time occupied by meal breaks or spent on unsuper-vised study,

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