Regulation 7 Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Income Support Regulations

In Schedule 1 to the Income Support Regulations (persons not required to be available for employment) for paragraph 5 (persons incapable of work)^f1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“5

A person who—

(a)

is entitled to sickness benefit or invalidity pension under Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act, or severe disablement allowance under Part III of that Act, or is in receipt of statutory sick pay within the meaning of Part XI of that Act; or

(b)

would be entitled to—

(i)

sickness benefit but for the provisions of section 31(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (no entitlement to sickness benefit for the first three days of interruption of employment), or but for a failure to satisfy the contribution conditions specified for that benefit in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Contributions and Benefits Act; or

(ii)

sickness benefit or invalidity benefit but for the provisions of regulation 7(1)(c) of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983^f2 (lays not to be treated as days of unemployment or incapacity for work).”.