These Regulations amend the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975 to provide for a decrease, from 39 per cent. to 38 per cent. of the basic retirement pension, in the percentage by which the personal rate of certain benefits is reduced in certain circumstances in respect of persons who receive continuous free in-patient treatment in a hospital or similar institution for more than 6 weeks but not more than 52 weeks.
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