The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/3194
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 13th January 1994.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 20 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 20 of the principal Regulations (persons formerly entitled to non-contributory invalidity pension) there shall be inserted after paragraph (1) the following paragraph:

(1A) A woman who—

(a) would have been entitled to a non-contributory invalidity pension immediately before 29th November 1984, but for the requirement that she be incapable of performing normal household duties (whether or not she made a claim for that pension), and

(b) has been continuously incapable of work since that date,

shall be entitled to a severe disablement allowance, whether or not she is disabled for the purposes of section 68 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and whether or not she has attained the age referred to in subsection (4)(d) of that section, if she satisfies the other requirements for entitlement to that allowance.