Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation), after the definition of “year of assessment”, there shall be inserted a new definition—

• ““young individual” means a single claimant who has not attained the age of 25 years, but does not include such a claimant—

  1. (a)

     whose landlord is a registered housing association; or

  2. (b)

     who has ceased to be the subject of a care order pursuant to section 31(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989^f1, which had previously been made in respect to him either—

     1. (i)

        after he attained the age of 16 years; or

     2. (ii)

        before he attained the age of 16 years, but had continued after he attained that age,

  and who has not attained the age of 22 years; and”.