The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 3 of the General Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 3 of the General Regulations(1) (interpretation) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) after the definition of “the Act” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

““the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(2);

“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996(3);”;

(b) in the definition of “child”, for the words “(General) Regulations 1987” there shall be substituted the words “Regulations(4) or, as the case may be, of regulation 76 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations”;

(c) after the definition of “funeral payment”, there shall be inserted the following definition—

• ““income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers Act 1995(5) by virtue of section 1(4) of that Act;”.

(3) After paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A) For the purposes of Part III of these Regulations, persons are to be treated as being members of the same household where such persons were partners and either or both or any or all of those persons are permanently in residential accommodation or a residential care home or a nursing home as defined for the purposes of the Income Support Regulations or, as the case may be, of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.”.

(4) In paragraph (2)—

(a) after the word “(3)”, there shall be inserted the words “(a) to (d)”;

(b) for the words “(General) Regulations 1987” there shall be substituted the words “Regulations(6) or, as the case may be, in regulation 78(2) and (3)(a) to (c) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations”.

(1)

Regulation 3 was amended by S.I. 1988/36, 1989/379, 1990/580, 1992/2149, 1994/506 and 1995/1229.

(2)

S.I. 1987/1967.

(3)

S.I. 1996/207.

(4)

Regulation 14 was amended by S.I. 1988/1445 and 1990/547.

(5)

1995 c. 18.

(6)

Regulation 16(2) and (3) was amended by S.I. 1992/3147 and 1993/2119.