The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources)(Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1996

Amendments to the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989

6.  Schedule 3 shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in paragraph 7, after “in receipt” there shall be inserted “of income-based jobseeker’s allowance or”, and after “during which” there shall be inserted “income-based jobseeker’s allowance or”;

(b) the following shall be substituted for paragraph 8:—

“8.   In computing the amount of capital of the person concerned, there shall be disregarded—

(a) so much of any back to work bonus received under section 26 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 as is by virtue of that section to be treated as payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance; and

(b) the whole of any payment made out of the social fund under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1).”; and

(c) paragraph 14B shall be omitted.

(1)

1992 c. 4.