The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003

10.  In regulation 105(1) (notional income)–

(a) paragraphs (2)(c) and (2A) shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (2)(d) for the words “working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit” there shall be substituted the words “working tax credit or child tax credit”;

(c) in paragraph (10)(a)–

(i) for the words “in respect of a member of the family” there shall be substituted the words “his partner”;

(ii) in head (i) for the words “by that member of the family, if it would normally be paid to that member” there shall be substituted the words “by his partner, if it would normally be paid to his partner”;

(iii) in head (ia) for the words “that member” there shall be substituted the words “the claimant’s partner”, and

(iv) in head (ii) for the words “or by that member of the family” there shall be substituted the words “or his partner”, for the words “of any member of the family” there shall be substituted the words “of his partner” and for the words “member is liable” there shall be substituted the words “partner is liable”;

(d) for paragraph (10)(b) there shall be substituted the following–

“(b) to a single claimant or his partner in respect of a third party (but not in respect of another member of his family) shall be treated as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, to the extent that it is kept or used by him or used by or on behalf of his partner;”;

(e) in paragraph (10A)(d)(iii) for the words “any member of his family” there shall be substituted “his partner (if any)”, and

(f) in paragraph (11) for the words after “the cost of maintaining the claimant” to the end of that paragraph there shall be substituted the words “or his partner in that home shall be treated as possessed by the claimant or his partner”.

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The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/1803, 1998/2117, 1999/2566, 1999/2640, 2000/1978 and 2002/841.