{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1326",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-Related Benefits Amendment Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph 15 of Part IV of Schedule 2—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (2) (pensioner premium) for the amounts “£14.70”and “£22.35” there shall be substituted the amounts “£16.70” and “£25.35” respectively;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2A) (pensioner premium for persons aged 75 and over) for the amounts “£16.65”and “£25.00” there shall be substituted the amounts “£18.65” and “£28.00” respectively; and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (3) (higher pensioner premium), for the amounts “£20.75”and “£29.55” there shall be substituted the amounts “£22.75” and “£32.55” respectively.\n(3) In paragraph 5 of Schedule 3A (reduction of protected sum)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), for the words “sub-paragraphs (2) to (5)” there shall be substituted the words “sub-paragraphs (2) to (6)”; and\n(b) after sub-paragraph (5) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(6) Where by virtue of the coming into force of regulation 3(1) and (2) of the Income-Related Benefits Amendment Regulations 1992 a claimant’s applicable amount increases in his benefit week beginning on a day during the period of 7 days beginning on 5th October 1992, no account shall be taken of that increase.”.\n(4) In paragraph 4 of Schedule 3B (reduction of protected sum)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1) for the words “sub-paragraphs (2) to (4)” there shall be substituted the words “sub-paragraphs (2) to (5)”; and\n(b) after sub-paragraph (4) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(5) Where by virtue of the coming into force of regulation 3(1) and (2) of the Income-Related Benefits Amendment Regulations 1992 a claimant’s applicable amount increases in his benefit week beginning on a day during the period of 7 days commencing on 5th October 1992, no account shall be taken of that increase.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The weekly rates were uprated by S.I. 1991/2910; sub-paragraphs (2) and (2A) were substituted by S.I. 1989/534, regulation 5(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 3A was inserted by S.I. 1988/1445; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/534, 1990/547, 2324, and 1991/1559."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1326."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Schedule 3B was inserted by S.I. 1989/534, Schedule 2; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/547, 2324 and 1991/1559."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1326/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:21:53.823315+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."
}