The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1988

Amendment of regulation 18 of the General Regulations

5.  In regulation 18 of the General Regulations (polygamous marriages)—

(a) for the words “Subject to regulations” there shall be substituted the words “(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulations”;

(b) in paragraph (1)(b) for the words “sub-paragraphs (3)(b) and” there shall be substituted the words “sub-paragraphs (3)(c) and”; and

(c) at the end of paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2) In the case of a partner who is aged less than 18, the amount which applies in respect of that partner shall be nil unless—

(a) that partner is treated as responsible for a child, or

(b) that partner is a person who—

(i) had he not been a member of a polygamous marriage would have been eligible for income support by virtue of regulation 13A (circumstances in which a person aged 16 or 17 is eligible for income support); or

(ii) is a person in respect of whom there is a direction under section 20(4A) of the Act(1) (income support to avoid severe hardship).”.

(1)

Sub-section (4A) of section 20 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) was inserted by section 4(2) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7).