5. No amount may be met under the provisions of this Schedule—
(a)in respect of housing benefit expenditure; or
(b)where the claimant is in accommodation [F1which is a residential care home or a nursing home for the purposes of regulation 19 (applicable amounts for persons in residential care and nursing homes)], unless his absence from the dwelling occupied as his home in such accommodation is only temporary within the meaning of paragraph 4(8).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 3 para. 5(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 19(3)
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 5 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1