The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 16 of the General Regulations

7.  In regulation 16 of the General Regulations (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household), in paragraph (5)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “in a case which does not fall within sub-paragraph (aa),” and for the words “with the date” there shall be substituted the words “on the day which immediately follows the day”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (a), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa) where regulation 4(3) or paragraph 11A or 12A of Schedule 7 (temporary absence abroad for the treatment of a child or young person) applies, has been continuously absent from Great Britain for a period of more than 8 weeks, that period of 8 weeks commencing—

(i) where he went abroad before the date of the claim for income support, on the date of that claim;

(ii) in any other case, on the day which immediately follows the day on which he went abroad; or”.