Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 19872.

(1)

The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 M1 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 2 (interpretation) in paragraph (1), there shall be inserted at the appropriate places

““the Independent Living Funds” means the Independent Living Fund, the Independent Living (Extension) Fund and the Independent Living (1933) Fund;

“the Independent Living (Extension) Fund” means the Trust of that name established by a deed dated 25th February 1993 and made between the Secretary of State for Social Security of the one part and Robin Glover Wendt and John Fletcher Shepherd of the other part;

“the Independent Living (1993) Fund” means the Trust of that name established by a deed dated 25th February 1993 and made between the Secretary of State for Social Security of the one part and Robin Glover Wendt and John Shepherd of the other part;”.

(3)

In each of the provisions to which paragraph (4) below refers, the words “the Independent Living Funds” shall be substituted for the words “ the Independent Living Fund ”.

(4)

Those provisions are regulations 42(4) (notional income), 48(10)(c) (income treated as capital), 51(3) (notional capital) and 72(1)(a) (assessment of income and capital in urgent cases), Schedule 3, paragraph 11(8)(b) (non-dependant deductions), Schedule 9, paragraphs 21(2) and 39(1) (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) and Schedule 10, paragraph 22(1) (capital to be disregarded).

(5)

In Schedule 10 (capital to be disregarded), in paragraph 29, for the words “or the Fund” there shall be substituted the words “ the Fund or the Independent Living (1993) Fund. ”.