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SCHEDULE 1AMENDMENT OF THE INCOME SUPPORT (GENERAL) REGULATIONS

8.  In Schedule 3 (housing costs)(1)—

(a)in paragraph 3(13) (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) for head (c) there shall be substituted the following head—

(c)“residential accommodation” means accommodation which is a residential care home, a nursing home, an Abbeyfield Home, or an independent hospital;;

(b)in paragraph 4(1) (housing costs not met), in head (b) for “in accommodation which is a residential care home or a nursing home except where he is in such accommodation” there shall be substituted “living in a residential care home, nursing home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital except where he is living in such a home or hospital”.

(1)

Schedule 3 was substituted by regulation 2 of S.R. 1995 No. 301