Time for payment of benefits

(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, where a person is entitled to any benefit, payment shall be made– (a) in the case of sickness benefit, maternity benefit or injury benefit, in arrears at such intervals as the Board may from time to time determine; (b) subject to paragraph (4), in the case of invalidity grant, retirement grant, survivors’ grant, disablement grant or funeral grant, as soon as possible after the claim has been determined; (c) in the case of any other benefit by way of a periodical payment, on a weekly basis in arrears at such intervals (being intervals not longer than four weeks) as the Board may from time to time determine. (2) Benefits falling under paragraph (1) (c) shall be payable on such days or day of the week (hereafter in these Regulations referred to in relation to a benefit as the “appropriate day”) as the Board may from time to time determine. (3) On the award of a disablement pension, that part of the pension awarded in respect of a period before the date of the award shall not be payable until after the expiration of twenty–one days from that date and if, before the expiration of that period, an appeal from the award or from a decision on which the award is based is brought until after the decision on that appeal is given. (4) A disablement grantor any part thereof shall not be payable until after the expiration of the time limit for an appeal from the award thereof or from a decision on which the award was based and, where any such appeal is brought, until after the decision on that appeal is given. 156 (5) In the case of the benefits specified in paragraph (1) (b) the Manager may, having regard to the interest of the beneficiary and to other relevant circumstances, determine that payment in respect of the benefit shall be made by instalments and no appeal shall lie against payment by instalments or the amount of each instalment: Provided that– (i) the decision to pay by instalments may be varied by the Manager at any time; (ii) the Manager may deposit the amount of the benefit due in a suitable bank and arrange for the payment of instalments by the bank.