The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988

Amendment of regulation 2 of the General Regulations

2.  In Regulation 2(1) of the General Regulations (interpretation)—

(a) at the end of the definition of “benefit week” there shall be added the words “and for the purposes of calculating any payment of income and of regulation 74(2)(a) “benefit week” shall also mean the period of 7 days ending on the day before the first day of the first benefit week following the date of claim or the last day on which income support is paid if it is in payment for less than a week;”;

(b) after the definition of “employed earner” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““employment” except for the purposes of section 20(3)(d) of the Act, includes any trade, business, profession, office or vocation;”;

(c) for the definition of ““residential accommodation” there shall be substituted the following definition— “residential accommodation” except in regulations 19 and 20 and paragraph 8(c)(i) of Schedule 5 has the meaning prescribed in regulation 21(3);”.