{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-no5-regulations-1994/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-no5-regulations-1994/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2139",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-no5-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Income Support Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 7 to the Income Support Regulations (applicable amounts in special cases)—\n(a) in Column 2 of paragraph 13A for the sum “£290” each time it appears there shall be substituted the sum “£325”;\n(b) after paragraph 13A there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—\n“\nPolish resettlement: Persons temporarily absent from accommodation\n13B Where a claimant or his partner is temporarily absent from accommodation to which paragraph 13A applies for which the claimant is liable to pay a retaining fee, and but for that absence from that accommodation his applicable amount would be calculated in accordance with that paragraph and the absent person—\n(a) is a patient; or\n(b) is a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) does not apply.\n13B The amount otherwise applicable to him under these Regulations may be increased to take account of the retaining fee—\n(a) in a case to which sub-paragraph (a) of Column 1 applies—\n(i) where the person has been a patient for a period of 6 weeks or less, by an amount not exceeding the maximum amount referred to in paragraph 13A(2)(a);\n(ii) where the person has been a patient for a period of more than 6 weeks, by an amount not exceeding 80 per cent. of the normal weekly charge for that accommodation, but any such increase shall not be for a con-tinuous period of more than 52 weeks;\n(b) in a case of a person to whom sub-paragraph (b) of Column 1 applies, by an amount not exceeding 80 per cent. of the normal weekly charge for that accommodation, but any such increase shall not be for a continuous period of more than 4 weeks.\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 13A was inserted in Schedule 7 by S.I. 1989/1678; relevant amending instrument S.I. 1994/542."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2139/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:27:35.949786+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."
}