SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENT OF THE INCOME SUPPORT (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1987

8.  In Schedule 3 (housing costs) M1 —

(a) for sub-paragraph (13)(c) of paragraph 3 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) M2 substitute—

“(c) “residential accommodation” means accommodation which is a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an an independent hospital;”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (1)(b) of paragraph 4 (housing costs not met) for “in accommodation which is a residential care home or a nursing home except where he is in such accommodation” substitute “ living in care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital except where he is living in such a home or hospital ”.

Marginal Citations

M1 Schedule 3 was substituted by S.I. 1995/1613.

M2 Sub-paragraph 13(c) of paragraph 3 was amended by S.I. 2001/3767.