The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of Schedule 3A to the General Regulations

19.  In Schedule 3A to the General Regulations (protected sum)(1), in paragraph 5—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1) for the reference “and (3)” there shall be substituted the reference “, (3) and (4)”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(4) Where a claimant’s applicable amount increases because a child or young person mentioned in paragraph (5)(c) of regulation 16 (circumstances in which a person is treated or not treated as a member of the household) is treated as a member of the claimant’s household under paragraph (6) of that regulation, the claimant’s protected sum shall not be reduced by the amount of that increase unless the child or young person has been treated as a member of the household for a continuous period which exceeds 8 weeks.”.

(1)

See S.I. 1988/1445, 1989/534