Regulation 4 Persons of prescribed descriptionI1
England, Wales and Scotland
(1)
Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 20(11) of the Act (definition of family) as it applies to housing benefit is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is treated as a child for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975f1 (meaning of child), and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.
(2)
Paragaph (1) shall not apply to a person who is on income support.
Annotations
Commencement
Footnotes
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1975 c. 61, as amended by sections 4, 8 and 21 and Schedule 5 Part I of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30) and by section 70 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) and by section 4(4) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7).