The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/470
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 6th April 1992.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 .

Section 2 Substitution of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

For regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (circumstances in which persons are to be regarded as receiving full-time education) there shall be substituted the following regulation–

(5)

(1) For the purposes of section 37(3) of the Act, a person shall be treated as receiving full-time education for any period during which he attends a course of education at a university, college, school or other educational establishment for twenty-one hours or more a week.

(2) In calculating the hours of attendance under paragraph (1) of this regulation–

(a) there shall be included the time spent receiving instruction or tuition, undertaking supervised study, examination or practical work or taking part in any exercise, experiment or project for which provision is made in the curriculum of the course; and

(b) there shall be excluded any time occupied by meal breaks or spent on unsuper-vised study, whether undertaken on or off the premises of the educational establishment.

(3) In determining the duration of a period of full-time education under paragraph (1) of this regulation, a person who has started on a course of education shall be treated as attending it for the usual number of hours per week throughout any vacation or any temporary interruption of his attendance until the end of the course or such earlier date as he abandons it or is dismissed from it.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed), for the sum of “£30” in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the sum of “£40”.

Section 4 Revocation

The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1991 are hereby revoked.