Regulation 7 Modification of certain provisions of Part I of the Act in relation to persons absent from Great Britain to whom regulation 6 applies

Any day on which or week in which such a person as is mentioned in regulation 6 is absent from Great Britain by reason only of his being such a person as is mentioned in that regulation shall in relation to benefit be treated for the purposes of section 13(2)(b) and (3) of the Act as a day on which or week in which he is present in Great Britain.

Any week in which or day on which a child is absent from Great Britain shall in relation to benefit be treated for the purposes of section 13(2) of the Act as a week in which or day on which that child is in Great Britain if in that week or on that day that child is living with a person in relation to whom paragraph (1) applies and that person is—

Unless in his discretion the Secretary of State otherwise determines in any case or class of cases, any day of absence from one another of a child and a person, being a day on which paragraph (1) applies to that person, shall, if that absence is due solely to that person being one to whom that paragraph applies, be a day which shall be disregarded under the provisions of section 3(2) of the Act (circumstances in which a person who has had a child living with him at some time before a particular week is to be treated for the purposes of section 3 of the Act as having that child living with him in that week notwithstanding their absence from one another).