SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 — 1 These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 and shall come into operation on 14th October 1991. 2 In these regulations “the principal regulations ” means the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 . Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal regulations 2 In regulation 3 of the principal regulations (conditions relating to residence and presence) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph— 2 Section 36 of the Act shall be modified by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsection— 4ZA In determining whether the person satisfies any conditions prescribed under subsection (4)(c) above— a any period during which the person is absent from Northern Ireland by reason only of the fact that— i he is abroad in his capacity as a serving member of the forces; or ii he is living with a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) and is the spouse, son, daughter, father, father-in-law, mother or mother-in-law of that person, shall be treated as a period during which the person was resident in Northern Ireland; and b any day on which the person is absent from Northern Ireland by reason only of the fact that on that day— i he is abroad in his capacity as a serving member of the forces; or ii he is living with a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) and is the spouse, son, daughter, father, father-in-law, mother or mother-in-law of that person; or iii he is in employment prescribed for the purposes of section 132 of the Social Security Act 1975 in connection with continental shelf operations; or iv he is abroad in his capacity as an airman or mariner within the meaning of regulation 80 and regulation 84 respectively of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 , shall be treated as a day on which the person is present in Northern Ireland; and for the purposes of this provision “serving member of the forces” has the same meaning as in regulation 1(2) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 . . Substitution of regulation 10A of the principal regulations 3 For regulation 10A of the principal regulations (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as having qualified for severe disablement allowance) there shall be substituted the following regulation— 10A — 1 A person shall be treated, for the purposes of section 36A of the Act (which applies to an age related addition in a severe disablement allowance), as having qualified for severe disablement allowance— a where he is a person to whom regulation 19 (persons formerly entitled to non-contributory invalidity pension) applies, on the first day of incapacity for work in a period of not less than 196 consecutive days of incapacity for work which immediately preceded the day on which he was first entitled to a non-contributory invalidity pension; b where he is a person who qualified for severe disablement allowance by virtue of section 36(3)(b) of the Act and was incapable of work on each day in a period which immediately preceded the period of not less than 196 consecutive days mentioned in that subsection, on the first day of incapacity for work in the period first mentioned; or c where he is a person to whom regulation 6 (modification of section 36(2) and (3) of the Act etc. ) applies, on the first day of incapacity for work in a period of not less than 196 consecutive days of incapacity which immediately preceded the first day on which he was previously entitled to a severe disablement allowance. 2 Where in any particular case a person satisfies the requirements of two or more sub-paragraphs in paragraph (1), he shall be treated as having qualified for severe disablement allowance in accordance with that sub-paragraph which produces the earlier or earliest day in his case. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on C. Davie Assistant Secretary 26th July 1991.