Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Amendment Regulations 1982

• Citation: S.I. 1982/388
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Amendment Regulations 1982, shall come into operation on 14th April 1982; and in these regulations “ the principal regulations ” means the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 10C of the principal regulations

In regulation 10C of the principal regulations (modification of Parts II and III of the Act in relation to accidents happening or prescribed diseases contracted outside Great Britain) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(2A) Where a person sustains an accident or contracts a prescribed disease while outside Great Britain in circumstances to which paragraph (2)(a) applies and the employment of that person would, but for the employment being outside Great Britain, have been employed earner's employment, that employment shall for the purposes of Chapter IV or V of Part II of the Act (benefit for industrial injuries and diseases) be treated as employed earner's employment if:—

(a) that person is ordinarily resident in Great Britain and immediately before the commencement of the employment was resident therein, and

(b) the employer of that person has a place of business in Great Britain.