Paragraph 26 I1

England, Wales and Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.4, para.58 amended by Tax Credits Schemes Amendment (Education Maintenance Allowance) 2000 reg 4(1)(2)(b)
Sch. 4 para. 1A inserted by Tax Credits 2001 reg. 4
Sch. 4 para. 51 substituted by Tax Credits (New Deal Consequential Amendments) 2001 reg. 9(2)
Sch. 4 para. 67 added by Tax Credits 2001 reg. 5(2)
Sch. 4 para. 68 added by Tax Credits 2001 reg. 5
Sch. 4 para. 39(2) words inserted by Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) 2018 Sch. para. 21(c)
Sch. 4 para. 41 word substituted by Secretary of State for Justice 2007 Sch. para. 15(3)
Sch. 4 para. 18 words substituted by Tax Credits 2002 reg. 5(2)

(1)

Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling.

(2)

In this paragraph “dwelling” includes any garage, garden and outbuildings which were formerly occupied by the claimant as his home and any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 4 para. 26 in force at 7.4.1992, see reg. 1

Notes on Schedule 4

Modifications

C1: Sch. 4 paras. 55, 56 modified (temp. until 27.11.2001) (28.11.2000) by The Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3134), regs. 1(1)(b), 17(1)(2)(b) (with regs. 1(2), 11, 19)