The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations 2000

Amendments to the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987

5.  In regulation 38(1)—

(a) in paragraph (1) for “and (2A)” substitute “, (2A) and (2B)”;

(b) in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (g) add—

“(h) that is an access fund payment and is intended to be used for any item other than daily living costs of any member of the student’s family or is used for any personal community charge, collective community charge contribution or council tax for which any member of that family is liable.”;

(c) in paragraph (2A)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) for “£250” substitute “£255”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) for “£303” substitute “£311”;

(d) after paragraph (2A) insert—

“(2B) There shall be disregarded from a student’s grant income £20 of any weekly access fund payment used for daily living costs of any member of the student’s family or, where any access fund payment so used covers a period of more than a week, £20 for each complete week covered by the payment.”;

(e) in paragraph (3) for the words from “, except any amount” to the end substitute “shall, subject to paragraph (4), be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period of 52 weeks beginning with the start of the academic year in respect of which the grant is payable.”;

(f) omit paragraph (3A).

(1)

Regulation 38 was amended by regulation 10 of S.I. 1988/660, regulation 10(a) of S.I. 1992/573 and regulation 6(3)(a) and (b) of S.I. 1999/1953.