Amendment of regulation 16 of the General Regulations7.
In regulation 16 of the General Regulations (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household), in paragraph (5)—
(a)
in sub-paragraph (a), at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “in a case which does not fall within sub-paragraph (aa),” and for the words “with the date” there shall be substituted the words “on the day which immediately follows the day”;
(b)
“(aa)
where regulation 4(3) or paragraph 11A or 12A of Schedule 7 (temporary absence abroad for the treatment of a child or young person) applies, has been continuously absent from Great Britain for a period of more than 8 weeks, that period of 8 weeks commencing—
(i)
where he went abroad before the date of the claim for income support, on the date of that claim;
(ii)
in any other case, on the day which immediately follows the day on which he went abroad; or”.