Amendment of regulation 16 of the principal Regulations8
In regulation 16 of the principal Regulations8 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household)—
a
in paragraph (5)(a)(i), (aa)(i) and (b)(i) there shall be added at the beginning “subject to paragraph (5A),”;
b
after paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
5A
Paragraph (5)(a)(i), (aa)(i) and (b)(i) shall not apply in a case where immediately before the date of claim for income support the claimant was entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance.
c
in paragraph (8) at the end there shall be added “and the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 19959”.