{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2887",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Persons of a prescribed description",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 20(11) of the Act (meaning of the family) as it applies to disabled person’s tax credit is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is receiving full-time education within section 142(1)(c) of the Contributions and Benefits 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—\n(a) who is entitled to income support or would, but for section 20(9) of the Act (provision against dual entitlement of members of family), be so entitled;\n(aa) who is entitled to income-based jobseeker’s allowance or would, but for section 3(1)(d) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (provision against dual entitlement of members of family), be so entitled;\n(b) who is receiving advanced education within the meaning of regulation 1(2) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976 ; or\n(c) who has ceased to receive full-time education but is to continue to be treated as a child by virtue of regulation 7 of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (5.10.1999) by The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2487), regs. 1(1), 26(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(vii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1082), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(aa) inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 7.4.1992, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/965; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1045, 1982/470 and 1987/357."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2887/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:00.399326+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."
}