Transitional provision
10. Where before 5th October 1999 a person’s resources were treated as being less than his requirements by virtue of regulation 8(3)(c) or (d) of the principal Regulations (eligibility for payment to meet, or to contribute towards the cost of supplying an optical appliance by reference to receipt of family credit) or regulation 8(3)(g) or (h) of those Regulations (eligibility for payment to meet, or to contribute towards the cost of supplying an optical appliance by reference to receipt of disability working allowance), those resources shall continue to be so treated for so long as family credit or disability working allowance, as the case may be, remains in payment.