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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Allocation of Functions to the Social Security Chamber) Regulations 2018.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 22nd November 2018.
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In these Regulations—
 “the 2018 Act” means the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018; and
 “the First-tier Tribunal” means the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.
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(1) The social security functions of the First-tier Tribunal are allocated to the Social Security Chamber.
(2) The social security functions of the First-tier Tribunal are the functions conferred on the Tribunal by the 2018 Act and by regulations made under that Act.
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The First-tier Tribunal Social Security Chamber may consider all aspects of a determination or a decision which it is called upon to consider, in exercising the functions allocated to it by regulation 3, and not only the particular aspect challenged by the party appealing against the determination or decision.
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Until the Scottish Ministers begin to provide a type of assistance under the 2018 Act that requires determination on the basis of ongoing entitlement, within the meaning of section 51 of that Act, the following provisions of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 will not apply in relation to the presidency of the First-tier Tribunal Social Security Chamber—
(a) section 21(2); and
(b) in schedule 4—
(i) in paragraph 5(1), the words “(other than a Chamber President)”; and
(ii) in paragraph 7, sub-paragraphs (3) and (4)(a).
SHIRLEY-ANNE SOMERVILLE
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
14th November 2018