The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 22 of the General Regulations

9.  In regulation 22(1) of the General Regulations (reductions in applicable amounts in certain cases of actual or notional unemployment benefit disqualification)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a)(ii), after the words “but less than 25” there shall be inserted the words “or a member of a couple or polygamous marriage where one member is aged not less than 18 but less than 25 and the other member, or in the case of a polygamous marriage each other member, is a person under 18 who is not eligible for income support under regulation 13A (persons under 18 years), or is not the subject of a direction under section 20(4A) (severe hardship direction)”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (a)(iii), after the words “polygamous marriage” there shall be inserted the words “(other than a member of a couple or polygamous marriage to whom head (ii) of this sub-paragraph applies)”.