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[F1SCHEDULE 3AE+W+SPROTECTED SUM

Reduction of protected sumE+W+S

5.(1) Subject to [F2sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)], the protected sum shall be reduced by the amount of any increase, in a benefit week subsequent to the second week, in the claimant’s applicable amount determined in accordance with the relevant provisions.

(2) Where regulation 22 (reduction in certain cases of unemployment benefit disqualification) ceases to apply to a claimant and as a result his applicable amount increases no account shall be taken of that increase.

[F3(3) Where by virtue of the coming into force of regulation 5 of the Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 the claimant’s applicable amount increases in his benefit week beginning on a day during the period of 7 days commencing on 9th October 1989, no account shall be taken of that increase.]]

Textual Amendments

F2Words in Sch. 3A para. 5(1) 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(e)(i)

F3Sch. 3A para. 5(3) added (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(e)(ii)