The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994

Amendment of regulation 6 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations

2.  In regulation 6 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (remunerative work)—

(a) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3) A person who otherwise satisfies all the requirements of paragraph (1) shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work insofar as—

(a) he is engaged by a charitable or voluntary organisation or is a volunteer, where the only payment received by him or due to be paid to him is a payment which is to be disregarded under regulation 27(2) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings);

(b) he is engaged in caring for a person in respect of whom he receives payments to which paragraph 24 of Schedule 3 refers; or

(c) he is engaged on a scheme for which a training allowance is being paid.”;

(b) after paragraph (7)(1) there shall b e added the following paragraph—

“(8) “Voluntary organisation” in paragraph (3) means a body, other than a public or local authority, the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit.”.

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Paragraph (7) was inserted in regulation 6 by paragraph 2(e) of S.I. 1992/2155.