The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977

3.  Where a person is entitled to receive payment of an amount by way of an increase of an invalid care allowance under paragraph 2 above, that increase shall not be payable unless one of the following conditions is satisfied—

(a)that the beneficiary would be treated for the purposes of the Child Benefit Act as having the child living with him; or

(b)that the requisite contributions are being made to the cost of providing for the child.