The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991

Amendment of regulation 6 of the General Regulations

4.  In regulation 6 of the General Regulations (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work)(1)—

(a) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a) he is mentally or physically disabled, and by reason of that disability—

(i) his earnings are reduced to 75 per cent. or less of what a person without that disability and working the same number of hours would reasonably be expected to earn in that employment or in comparable employment in the area; or

(ii) his number of hours of work are 75 per cent. or less of what a person without that disability would reasonably be expected to undertake in that employment or in comparable employment in the area.”

(b) after paragraph (f) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(g) he is in employment and lives in, or is temporarily absent from, a residential care home, a nursing home or residential accommodation and his, or his partner's, applicable amount falls to be calculated in accordance with Part I of Schedule 4 (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes) or, as the case may be, paragraph 9, 10 to 10D, 13, 16 or 18 of Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases).”.

(1)

Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1988/1445.