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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Persons of prescribed description for the definition of family in section 137(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 137(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (definition of family) as it applies to council tax benefit is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is treated as a child for the purposes of section 142 of that Act (meaning of child), and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is on income support or to a person who is receiving advanced education within the meaning of regulation 12(2) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(relevant education).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1990/547."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3070",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential Provisions) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1510",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2402",
      "affecting_title": "The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:39.387743+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}