Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 6 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations

for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3)

A person who otherwise satisfies all the requirements of paragraph (1) shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work insofar as—

(a)

he is engaged by a charitable or voluntary organisation or is a volunteer, where the only payment received by him or due to be paid to him is a payment which is to be disregarded under regulation 27(2) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings);

(b)

he is engaged in caring for a person in respect of whom he receives payments to which paragraph 24 of Schedule 3 refers; or

(c)

he is engaged on a scheme for which a training allowance is being paid.”;

after paragraph (7)^f1 there shall b e added the following paragraph—

“(8)

“Voluntary organisation” in paragraph (3) means a body, other than a public or local authority, the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit.”.