Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 2913

The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1992

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1992 No. 2913

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1992

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 57(1)(a)(i) and 175(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992^[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it^[2], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 17th December 1992.

Amendment of regulation 12D of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983
    2.    For sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (2) of regulation 12D of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983^[3] (persons deemed to be actively seeking employment) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph-
"(c) if he is a blind person, a maximum of 6 weeks, whether consecutive or not, during which, apart from a period of no more than 2 weeks, he participates for a maximum period of 4 weeks in a course of training in the use of guide dogs of which at least 3 days in each such week is spent in that training." .

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Henley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security

19th November 1992

Regulation 2 amends regulation 12D(2)(c) of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 by extending by 2 weeks the number of weeks a blind person can be deemed to be actively seeking employment in any period of 12 months.

[1] 1992 c. 4. back

[2] See Section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5). back

[3] S.I. 1983/1598 Regulation 12D was inserted by regulation 6 of S.I. 1989/1324. back