The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsiblities) Amendment Regulations 2003

Amendment of the Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) Regulations 1994

2.—(1) The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) Regulations 1994(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (definitions) at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order, insert —

““foster parent” means a person approved as —

(a)

a foster parent in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of the Fostering Services Regulations 2002(2) (approval of foster parents); or

(b)

a foster carer in accordance with the provisions of Part II of the Fostering of Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996(3) (approval of foster carers);”.

(3) In regulation 2 (preclusion from regular employment for the purpose of paragraph 5(7)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Act) —

(a) after paragraph (2)(b), add —

“(c) that he was a foster parent.”;

(b) after paragraph (5)(a), insert —

“(aa) in the case of a person who satisfies the condition in paragraph (2)(c) above in respect of the year 2003-04 or any subsequent year, if he does not furnish such information as the Secretary of State may from time to time require which is relevant to the question of whether in that year he was precluded from regular employment by responsibilities at home within the meaning of these Regulations; or”.

(1)

S.I.1994/704, to which there are amendments not relevant to this instrument.

(2)

S.I.2002/57.

(3)

S.I.1996/3263 (S.253).