Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1993
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1993/1679 |
| Year | 1993 |
1993No. 1679
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3
Regulations 1993
5thJuly1993
12thJuly1993
2ndAugust1993
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 135(1), 136(5)(b), 137(1) and 175(1) to (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ( a) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee of proposals to make the regulations specified in the Schedule to this instrument ( b), the Committee having agreed that the proposals in respect of the remainder of the regulations in this instrument be not referred to it ( c), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 2nd August 1993.
(2) Regulation 6 of these Regulations shall have effect in relation to any particular claimant at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 2nd August 1993 which applies in his case.
(3) In these Regulations "the Income Support Regulations" means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 ( d) and expressions used in these Regulations and in the Income Support Regulations shall have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in the Income Support Regulations.
Urgent Cases
2.-(1) Regulation 70 of the Income Support Regulations ( e)(urgent cases) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (3)-
(a) for sub-paragraph (b), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph-"(b) is an asylum seeker for the purposes of paragraph 3A;"; and
(b) sub-paragraph (d) shall be omitted.(a) 1992 c.4; section 137(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word "prescribed".
(b) See the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5), section 172(1).
(c) See the Social Security Administration Act 1992, section 173(1)(b).
(d) S.I. 1987/1967.
(e) The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/1323.
(3) After paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraphs-
"(3A) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person-
(a) becomes an asylum seeker when he has submitted a claim for asylum to the Secretary of State that it would be contrary to the United Kingdom's obligations under the Convention for him to be removed from, or required to leave, the United Kingdom and that claim is recorded by the Secretary of State as having been made; and(b) ceases to be an asylum seeker when his claim is recorded by the Secretary of State as having been finally determined or abandoned.(3B) In paragraph (3A), "the Convention"means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and the protocol to that Convention.".(4) In the case of a claimant who was entitled to income support by virtue of regulation 70 of the Income Support Regulations for the benefit week which includes 2nd August 1993, then in respect of each day after that date on which the claimant's entitlement to income support continues, regulation 70 shall continue to apply in his case as if the preceding provisions of this regulation had not been made.
Mortgage Interest Payments
3.-(1) Schedule 3 to the Income Support Regulations ( a) (housing costs) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph 7 (interest on loans to acquire an interest in the dwelling occupied as the home)-
(a) in sub-paragraph (3), for the words "sub-paragraphs (3A) to (6)" there shall be substituted the words "sub-paragraphs (3A) to (6B) and paragraphs 7A and 7B"; and(b) after sub-paragraph (6A) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs-"(6B) Where for the time being a loan exceeds, or in a case where more than one loan is to be taken...
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