Regulation 8
1. A person who is a lone parent and responsible for a child who is a member of his household.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
2. A single claimant or a lone parent with whom a child is boarded out by a local authority or voluntary organisation within the meaning of the Child Care Act 1980 F1 or, in Scotland, the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 F2.
3. A person who is—
(a)looking after a child because the parent of that child or the person who usually looks after him is ill or is temporarily absent from his home; or
(b)looking after a member of the family who is temporarily ill.
Commencement Information
I3Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
4. A person who is regularly and substantially engaged in caring for another person if—
(a)the person doing the caring is in receipt of an invalid care allowance under section 37 of the Social Security Act F3; or
(b)the person being cared for is in receipt of attendance allowance under section 35 of that Act; or
(c)the person being cared for has claimed attendance allowance under that section but only for the period up to the date of determination of that claim, or the period of 26 weeks from the date of that claim, whichever date is the earlier.
Textual Amendments
F31975 c. 14; subsection (3) of section 37 amended by sections 37, 86 and Schedule 11 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50).
Commencement Information
I4Sch. 1 para. 4 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
[F45. A person who provides evidence of incapacity in accordance with regulation 2 of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 (evidence of incapacity for work) in support of a claim for sickness benefit, invalidity pension or severe disablement allowance within the meaning of sections 14, 15 or 36 of the Social Security Act, provided that an adjudication officer has not determined that that person is not incapable of work, or a person who is in receipt of statutory sick pay within the meaning of Part I of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982.]
Textual Amendments
F4Sch. 1 para. 5 substituted (10.4.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(a)
Commencement Information
I5Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
6. A person who is mentally or physically disabled and whose earning capacity is, by reason of that disability, reduced to 75 per cent or less of what he would, but for that disability, be reasonably expected to earn.
Commencement Information
I6Sch. 1 para. 6 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
7. A person who is a student and who, by reason of any mental or physical disability, would, in comparison with other students, be unlikely to obtain employment within a reasonable period of time.
Commencement Information
I7Sch. 1 para. 7 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
8. A person who is a blind person registered in a register compiled by a local authority under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 F5 (welfare services) or, in Scotland, who has been certified as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a regional or islands council, but a person who has ceased to be so registered on regaining his eyesight shall nevertheless be treated as so registered for a period of 28 weeks following the date on which he ceased to be so registered.
Textual Amendments
F51948 c. 29; section 29 was amended by section 1(2) of the National Assistance (Amendment) Act 1959 (c. 30); the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960 (c. 61), sections 113 and 114 and Schedule 4; the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Schedule 23, paragraph 2; the Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50), Schedule 3, paragraph 3; the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 6; and the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudication Act 1983 (c. 41), Schedule 10, Part I.
Commencement Information
I8Sch. 1 para. 8 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
9. A woman who—
(a)is incapable of work by reason of pregnancy; or
(b)is or has been pregnant but only for the period commencing 11 weeks before her expected week of confinement and ending seven weeks after the date on which her pregnancy ends.
Commencement Information
I9Sch. 1 para. 9 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
10. A person to whom any provision of regulation 13(2)(a) to (e) (persons receiving relevant education who are parents, persons severely handicapped, orphans and persons estranged from their parents or guardian) applies.
Commencement Information
I10Sch. 1 para. 10 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
11. A person who is in receipt of a training allowance.
Commencement Information
I11Sch. 1 para. 11 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
12. A person who is following an Open University course and is attending, as a requirement of that course, a residential course.
Commencement Information
I12Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
13. A person [F6aged not less than 50 who]—
(a)has not been in remunerative work during the previous 10 years; and
(b)has no prospect of future employment in remunerative work; and
(c)during that period has not been required to be available for employment in accordance with section 20(3)(d)(i) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support), or would not have been so required had a claim to income support been made by or in respect of him.
Textual Amendments
F6Words in Sch. 1 para. 13 substituted (10.4.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(b)
Commencement Information
I13Sch. 1 para. 13 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
14. A person aged not less than 60.
Commencement Information
I14Sch. 1 para. 14 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
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Textual Amendments
F7Sch. 1 para. 15 omitted (10.4.1989) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(c), 18
Commencement Information
I15Sch. 1 para. 15 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
16. Notwithstanding that he would otherwise be a student, a person who is a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 F8 as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967 F9 and who—
(a)is attending for more than 15 hours a week a course for the purpose of learning English so that he may obtain employment; and
(b)on the date on which that course commenced, had been in Great Britain for not more than 12 months,
but only for a period not exceeding nine months.
Textual Amendments
F8Cmnd. 9171.
F9Cmnd. 3906.
Commencement Information
I16Sch. 1 para. 16 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
17. A person who is required to attend court for any period exceeding two days as a justice of the peace, a party to any proceedings, a witness or a juror.
Commencement Information
I17Sch. 1 para. 17 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
18. A person who has been discharged from detention in a prison, remand centre or youth custody institution but only for the period of seven days commencing with the date of his discharge.
Commencement Information
I18Sch. 1 para. 18 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
19. A person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by [F10section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work).]
Textual Amendments
F10Words in Sch. 1 para. 19 substituted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 28
Commencement Information
I19Sch. 1 para. 19 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
20. A person to whom regulation 70(3) (applicable amount of certain persons from abroad) applies.
Commencement Information
I20Sch. 1 para. 20 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
21. A person remanded in, or committed in, custody for trial or for sentencing.
Commencement Information
I21Sch. 1 para. 21 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
22. A person who is a member of a couple and who is treated as responsible for a child who is a member of his household where the other member of that couple is temporarily [F12not present in the United Kingdom].]
Textual Amendments
F11Sch. 1 para. 22 inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1228), regs. 1(1)(b), 7
F12Words in Sch. 1 para. 22 substituted (10.4.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(c)