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(1) These regulations may be cited as the 
Social Security (Credits) Amendment Regulations 1983
and shall come into operation on 6th April 1983.
(2) In these regulations the expression “the principal regulations” means the Social Security
(Credits) Regulations 1975.
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Regulation 9
of the principal regulations (credits for unemployment or incapacity for work)
shall be amended as follows—
(a) in paragraph
(5) there shall be inserted after the words 
“in this regulation” the words “except for 
paragraph (9)(f)”;
(b) in paragraph
(5) there shall be inserted after 
sub-paragraph (c) the following sub-paragraph—
“
(d) was a day of incapacity
for work for the purposes of statutory sick pay under 
section 1 of the Social Security and
Housing Benefits Act 1982(statutory
sick pay liability) and fell within a period of entitlement under 
section 3 of that Act”;
(c) in paragraph
(8) for the reference “
paragraph (5)(b)” there shall
be substituted the reference “paragraph
(5)(b) or (d)”
;
(d) in paragraph
(9) there shall be inserted after 
sub-paragraph (e) the following sub-paragraph—
“
(f) for the relevant past
year that person is entitled to a credit in respect of any one week which
included one or more days of incapacity for work specified in 
paragraph (5)(d) being a day or days for which
that person would have been entitled to sickness benefit had he duly claimed
it and had all such days specified in paragraph
(5)(d) in the relevant past year been treated
for the purposes of the Act as days of incapacity for work”.
Norman Fowler
Secretary of State for Social Services
21st February 1983