Regulation 26 Amendment of regulation 4 of the Family Credit RegulationsI1

In regulation 4 of the Family Credit Regulations (remunerative work)^f1 for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(6)

For the purposes of paragraph (5)—

(a)

work which a person does only qualifies if—

(i)

it is the work he normally does, and

(ii)

it is likely to last for a period of 5 weeks or more beginning with the week of claim; and

(b)

a person shall be treated as not on a recognised, customary or other holiday on any day on which the person is on maternity leave or is absent from work because he is ill.”.