Amendment of Schedule 9 to the General Regulations20.

In Schedule 9 to the General Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) M1 —

(a)

in paragraph 15(2) (disregard of charitable and voluntary payments from income)—

(i)

the words “ community charge, water charges, or ” shall be omitted; and

(ii)

at the end, there shall be added the words “ , or is used for any personal community charge, collective community charge contribution or water charges for which that claimant or member is liable ”;

(b)

in paragraph 16 (disregard of £10 from certain pensions), for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b)

a pension paid by the government of a country outside Great Britain which is either—

(i)

analogous to a war disablement pension; or

(ii)

analogous to a war widow’s pension;”.