The Income Support (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1991

Made: 17th April 1991

Laid before Parliament: 25th April 1991

Coming into force: 20th May 1991

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of thepowers conferred by section 22(1) and (4) and 84(1) of the SocialSecurity Act 1986[^f00001] and section 166(1) to (3A) of the Social Security Act1975[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, andafter agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposalsto make these Regulations should not be referred to it[^f00003]hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support(General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1991 and shall come into forceon 20th May 1991.

• (2) In these Regulations“the General Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987[^f00004]

Amendment of regulation 19 of the General Regulations

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In regulation 19 of the General Regulations (applicable amounts forpersons in residential care and nursing homes) after paragraph (1) thereshall be inserted the following paragraph—

(1ZA) A person to whom paragraph (1) applies shall be treated as notbeing severely disabled.

Amendment of regulation 21 of the General Regulations

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In regulation 21 of the General Regulations (special cases) afterparagraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(1A) Except where the amount prescribed in Schedule 7 in respect of aperson to whom paragraph (1) applies includes an amount applicable underregulation 17(1)(d) or 18(1)(e), a person to whom paragraph (1) appliesshall be treated as not being severely disabled.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Nicholas Scott — Minister of State, — Department of Social Security — 17th April 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General)Regulations 1987 by providing for a person in a residential care ornursing home and, with certain exceptions, for a person whose applicableamount is determined under Schedule 7 to those Regulations to be treatedas not being severely disabled (regulations 2 and 3).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 50; section 84(1) is an interpretation provision andis cited because of the meanings assigned to the words“prescribed” and“regulations”.

[^f00002]: 1975 c. 14; section 166(3A) was inserted by section 62 of the SocialSecurity Act 1986 and section 166(1) to (3A) is applied by section 83(1)of that Act.

[^f00003]: See the Social Security Act 1986, section 61(1)(b) and (10); the SocialSecurity Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, added a definition of“regulations” to section 61(10) of the Social Security Act 1986.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/663 and 1989/1678.