Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations 201314.

(1)

The Universal Credit Regulations 201316 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 35 (meaning of “relevant childcare”), for paragraph (4)(e) substitute—

“(e)

by a person who is employed, or engaged under a contract for services, to provide care and support by the provider of a domiciliary support service within the meaning of Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016; or”.

(3)

In Schedule 1 (meaning of payments in respect of accommodation), in paragraph 1 (interpretation), in the definition of “care home”—

(a)

in paragraph (a) omit “and Wales”;

(b)

after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)

in Wales, means a place at which a care home service within the meaning of Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 is provided wholly or mainly to persons aged 18 or over;”;

(c)

in paragraph (c), for “either case” substitute “any of the above cases”.