The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998

Council Tax Benefit, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance: Amendments with respect to persons in detention E+W+S

8.—(1) For the words referred to in each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) below there shall be substituted the words “ who is detained in hospital under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 M1 , or, in Scotland, under the provisions of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 M2 or the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 M3 , ”.

(2) The words referred to and the provisions specified in this paragraph are—

F1 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c) in the Income Support Regulations—

(i) in regulation 21(3) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner"M4 , the words from “whose detention is" to the end of the definition;

F2 (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations in regulation 85(4) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner" the words from “whose detention is" to “1984".

F3 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 8(2)(a)(b) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

F2 Reg. 8(2)(c)(ii) revoked (10.4.2006 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), regs. 1(e), 9(2), Sch.

F3 Reg. 8(3) revoked (10.4.2006 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), regs. 1(e), 9(2), Sch.

Marginal Citations

M1 1983 c.72.

M2 1984 c.36.

M3 1995 c.46.

M4 The definition of “prisoner" was substituted by S.I.1995/516.