The Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991

Exemption from regulations 6 and 7

8.  –

(1) Regulation 6, or as the case may be, regulation 7, shall not, subject toparagraph (3), apply to a person in respect of the first 28 days of any period during which he is–

(a) undergoing medical or other treatment in a hospital or other institution in any of the circumstances mentioned in regulation 6; or

(b) in accommodation provided in any of the circumstances mentioned in regulation 7.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)–

(a) two or more distinct periods separated by an interval not exceeding 28 days, or by two or more such intervals, shall be treated as a continuous period equal in duration to the total of such distinct periods and ending on the last day of the later or last such period;

(b) any period or periods to which either regulation 6 or regulation 7 refers shall be taken into account and aggregated with any period to which the other of them refers.

(3) Where, on the day a person’s entitlement to an attendance allowance commences, he is in accommodation in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 6 or regulation 7, paragraph (1) shall not apply to him for any period of consecutive days, beginning with that day, on which he remains in that accommodation.