The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 4 of the General Regulations

3.  In regulation 4 of the General Regulations (temporary absence from Great Britain)—

(a) in paragraph (1) for the words from “shall continue during” to the end there shall be substituted the words—

• “shall continue only—

  (a)

  in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), during the first 4 weeks of that period of temporary absence; and

  (b)

  in the circumstances specified in paragraph (3), during the first 8 weeks of that period.”;

(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraphs—

“(3) The circumstances in which a claimant’s entitlement to income support is to continue during the first 8 weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain are that—

(a) the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks; and

(b) the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to income support; and

(c) the claimant is, or the claimant and any other member of his family are, accompanying a member of the claimant’s family who is a child or young person solely in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of that child or young person for a disease or bodily or mental disablement; and

(d) those arrangements relate to treatment—

(i) outside Great Britain;

(ii) during the period whilst the claimant is, or the claimant and any member of his family are, temporarily absent from Great Britain; and

(iii) by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.

(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3) “appropriately qualified” means qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment.”.