The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1988

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.—(1) Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5) below.

(2) The following definition shall be added to paragraph (1) in that Regulation at the beginning of the list of definitions—

““the Act” means the Social Security Act 1986;”

(3) The definitions of the following terms in paragraph (1) in that Regulation shall be omitted—

• “family income supplement”

• “housing benefit”

• “single payment of supplementary benefit”

• “supplementary benefit”.

(4) For the definition of “person affected by a trade dispute” in paragraph (1) in that Regulation there shall be substituted the following definition—

• ““person affected by a trade dispute” means a person—

  (a)

  to whom section 23 of the Act applies or

  (b)

  to whom that section would apply if a claim to income support were made by or in respect of him;”

(5) For paragraph (2) of that Regulation there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, two persons are to be treated as being or not being members of the same household in the circumstances set out in regulation 16(2) and (3) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(1).”

(1)

S.I. 1987/1967.