{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-schemes-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-schemes-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2695",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-schemes-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Family Credit Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 2 to the Family Credit Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)–\n(a) in paragraph 13, for sub-paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph–\n“(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to a payment which is made or due to be made by–\n(a) a former partner of the claimant, or a former partner of any member of the claimant’s family; or\n(b) the parent of a child or young person where that child or young person is a member of the claimant’s family.”;\n(b) after paragraph 46 there shall be added the following paragraph–\n“\n47 (1) £15 of any payment of maintenance, whether under a court order or not, which is made or due to be made by–\n(a) the claimant’s former partner, or the claimant’s partner’s former partner; or\n(b) the parent of a child or young person where that child or young person is a member of the claimant’s family except where that parent is the claimant or the claimant’s partner.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), where more than one maintenance payment falls to be taken into account in any week, all such payments shall be aggregated and treated as if they were a single payment.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2695/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:40.844265+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."
}