Amendment of regulation 42 of the Income Support Regulations37.

In regulation 42 of the Income Support Regulations M1 (notional income)—

(a)

for sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(d)

child benefit to which paragraph (2D) refers;”;

(b)

after paragraph (2C), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2D)

This paragraph refers to child benefit payable in accordance with regulation 2(1)(a)(ii) of the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Regulations 1976 M2 (weekly rate for only, elder or eldest child of a lone parent) but only to the extent that it exceeds the amount specified in regulation 2(1)(a)(i) of those Regulations.”.