The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1981

• Citation: S.I. 1981/655
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st June 1981.

Section 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976

For regulation 6 of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 (prescribed relationships between severely disabled persons and persons engaged in caring for them) there shall be substituted the following regulation:—

Severely disabled persons prescribed for the purposes of section 37(1)(c) of the Act

(6) For the purposes of section 37(1)(c) of the Act (condition of entitlement to an invalid care allowance that the severely disabled person is either such relative of the person caring for him as may be prescribed or a person of any such other description as may be prescribed) where a severely disabled person is being cared for by another person, that disabled person shall be a prescribed person for the purposes of that section, whether he is related to the person caring for him or not.