8. In regulation 13 of the Transitional Regulations (special provisions for persons in residential care and nursing homes) —
(a)in paragraph (3) after the words “paragraph (2)” there shall be inserted the words “(6) or (8)”;
(b)in paragraph (4) —
(i)the words “except in the circumstances specified in paragraph 16 or 18 of column (1) of Schedule 7 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts in special cases)” shall be omitted;
(ii)at the end there shall be added the words “except where he ceases or, as the case may be, he and his family cease, to reside in the home in the circumstances specified in paragraph 16 or 18 of column (1) of Schedule 7 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts in special cases) and he intends or, as the case may be, they intend to return to the home”;
(c)in paragraph (5) for the words “first and second benefit weeks” there shall be substituted the words “first or second benefit week (or both)”;
(d)in paragraph (8) for the words from and including “a transitional addition” to the end there shall be substituted the following —
“(a)a transitional addition equal to the amount to which he was entitled immediately before his period of temporary absence less, if his applicable amount would have increased had he not been absent, the amount of the increase; and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, any increase in the amount of personal expenses where a personal expenses addition is in payment shall be disregarded;
(b)a personal expenses addition equal to the amount to which he was entitled immediately before his period of temporary absence less, if the amount of personal expenses applicable in his case under paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 to the General Regulations would have increased had he not been absent, the amount of that increase.”.