The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations 2000

Amendments to the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987

8.  In regulation 46—

(a) in paragraph (1)(1) after sub-paragraph (b) add the following sub-paragraph—

“(c) in respect of any child or young person to whom paragraph (1B) applies, the allowance specified in paragraph (4) of column (2) of Schedule 4.”;

(b) after paragraph (1A)(2) insert the following paragraphs—

“(1B) This paragraph applies to a child or young person for whom the claimant or his partner is responsible and who is a member of the claimant’s household, and—

(a) in respect of whom disability living allowance is payable, or has ceased to be payable solely because he is a patient; or

(b) who is registered as blind in a register compiled by a local authority under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948(3) (welfare services) or, in Scotland, has been certified as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a regional or islands council; or

(c) who ceased to be registered as blind in such a register within the 28 weeks immediately preceding the date of claim.

(1C) For the purposes of paragraph (1B)(a), “patient” has the same meaning as in regulation 8(3)(a).”

(1)

Regulation 46(1) was amended by regulation 11(a) of S.I. 1988/660, regulation 7 of S.I. 1995/1339, regulation 5 of S.I. 1996/2545 and regulation 7(2) of, and paragrapah (1) of Schedule 1 to S.I. 1999/2487.

(2)

Regulation 46(1A) was inserted by regulation 7(3) of S.I. 1999/2487.

(3)

1948 c. 29.