{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-and-income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-and-income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/482",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance and Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-and-income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations (additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premiums) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation and regulation 17.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) and (c)(i) for the words “invalidity pension\" in each place where they occur there shall be substituted the words “ long-term incapacity benefit ”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (5) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) and (c)(i), a reference to a person in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit includes a person in receipt of short-term incapacity benefit at a rate equal to the long-term rate by virtue of section 30B(4)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (short-term incapacity benefit for a person who is terminally ill), or who would be or would have been in receipt of short-term incapacity benefit at such a rate but for the fact that the rate of short-term incapacity benefit already payable to him is or was equal to or greater than the long-term rate..”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/663 and 2022, 1991/2742 and 1994/2139."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (5) was added by S.I. 1988/2022."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/482/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:15:31.625421+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."
}