The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2001

Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

2.  In the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(1)—

(a) in regulation 26 (calculation of income and capital of students), for the words from “have effect” to the end of the regulation, there shall be substituted the words “have effect in relation to students and their partners subject to the modifications set out in Chapter VIII thereof (students)”;

(b) for the title to Chapter VIII of Part V, there shall be substituted the word “STUDENTS”;

(c) in Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—

(i) in paragraph 61(1), for the words “full-time student” there shall be substituted the word “student”;

(ii) in paragraph 65(2), for the words from “as a result of” to the end of the sub-paragraph, there shall be substituted the words “as a result of the student’s attendance on the course where an amount in respect of those expenses has already been disregarded pursuant to regulation 66(1) (student’s income to be disregarded)”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/206, 1997/65, 1998/2117 and 2000/1981.