The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 8) Regulations 2001

Amendments to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations and the Family Credit Regulations

5.  After paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 insert the following paragraph—

“1A.— (1) The dwelling, together with any garden, garage and outbuildings, which the claimant intends in due course to occupy as his home but which he currently does not so occupy solely because he resides in living accommodation which is for him job-related.

(2) Notwithstanding regulation 10, only one dwelling shall be disregarded under this paragraph.

(3) In sub-paragraph (1) the reference to a dwelling includes any premises which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately from the dwelling, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) living accommodation is job-related for a claimant if it meets either of the following conditions:

Condition 1

The living accommodation is provided for the claimant by reason of his employment, or for his partner by reason of her employment, in any of the following cases—

(i) where it is necessary for the proper performance of the duties of the employment that the employee should reside in that accommodation;

(ii) where the accommodation is provided for the better performance of the duties of the employment, and it is one of the kinds of employment in the case of which it is customary for employers to provide living accommodation for employees;

(iii) where, there begin a special threat to the employee’s security, special security arrangements are in force and the employee resides in the accommodation as part of those arrangements.

Condition 2

The living accommodation is provided for the claimant or his partner under a contract entered into with a person with whom the claimant or his partner is not connected and requiring him or his partner—

(a) to carry on a particular trade, profession, business or vocation;

(b) to carry on that trade, profession, business or vocation on premises or other land provided by another person (whether under a tenancy or otherwise); and

(c) to live either on those premises or on other premises provided by that other person.

(5) For the purposes of Condition 2 the claimant or his partner is connected with another person (“A”) in any of the following circumstances—

(a) A is a relative, or the partner of a relative, of the claimant or his partner;

(b) A is a person with whom the claimant or his partner is carrying on a trade, profession or business in partnership, or the partner or a relative of a person with whom the claimant or his partner is carrying on a trade, profession or business in partnership.

(6) In sub-paragraph (5) “relative” means brother, sister, ancestor or lineal descendant.”.