Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 3A inserted (10.4.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), reg. 1(1)(c), Sch. 1 para. 14, Sch. 2 (with reg. 28)
3.—(1) A protected sum shall not be applicable to a claimant where in the first week—
(a)he is aged under 25 and, if he is a member of a couple, his partner is also aged under 25; and
(b)he is required to be available for employment for the purposes of section 20(3)(d)(i) of the Act; and
(c)he was not in receipt of supplementary benefit as a boarder on 24th November 1985; and
(d)none of the conditions in paragraph 16(4) of Schedule 5 (applicable amounts of persons in board and lodging accommodation or hostels) applies to him.
[F2(2) A protected sum shall not be applicable to a claimant, [F3unless he, or any partner of his, is entitled to housing benefit for the period of 7 consecutive days beginning 10th April 1989 or, where paragraph 7(7)(b) applies, for the period of 7 consecutive days referred to in that paragraph in respect of] the board and lodging accommodation normally occupied as the home by him, or if he has a partner, by him and his partner.]
[F2(3) Subject to paragraph 7, a protected sum shall not be applicable to a claimant where he changes or vacates his accommodation during the period of 7 consecutive days beginning 10th April 1989.]]
Textual Amendments
F2Sch. 3A para. 3(2)(3) added (10.4.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(b), 19(c)
F3Words in Sch. 3A para. 3(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), regs. 1(1), 7(d)