Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Credits) Amendment Regulations 1981
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1981/1501 |
| Year | 1981 |
1981 No. 1501
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Credits) Amendment Regulations 198122ndOctober 1981
2ndNovember 1981
23rdNovember 1981
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 13(4) and 17(1)(a) and (2) of the Social Security Act 1975(a), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Social Security Advisory Committee having agreed that the proposals on the matter should not be referred to it (b), hereby makes the following regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit and Credits) Amendment Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 23rd November 1981.
(2) In these regulations—
" the Benefit Regulations " means the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1975(c);
" the Credits Regulations " means the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975(d).
Amendment of regulation 10 of the Benefit Regulations
2. For regulation 10 of the Benefit Regulations (reckoning of periods of interruption of employment) there is substituted—
" Reckoning of periods of interruption of employment
10.—(1) For the purpose of reckoning periods of interruption of employment, but for that purpose only, a person shall be deemed to be available to be employed in employed earner's employment on any day specified in paragraph (2) and any such day shall be treated as a day of unemployment.
(2) The days specified for the purpose of paragraph (1) are—
(a) any day to which regulation 7(1)(f) (days when a person is attending a training course not to be treated as days of incapacity for work) applies ;
(a) 1975 c. 14.
(b) See Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 10(2)(b).
(c) S.I. 1975/564; to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations.
(d) S.I. 1975/556; the only relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1977/788.
(b) any day in respect of which the person concerned is entitled to a supplementary allowance under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976(a) if on that day regulation 6(q) of the Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Regulations 1980(b) applies to him (persons of 60 and over entitled to supplementary allowance without being required to register for employment).".
Amendment of regulation 9 of the Credits Regulations
3. The following amendments are made...
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