{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1228",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987. They are made before the end of a period of 12 months from commencement of the enactments under which they are made and are therefore exempt, under section 61(5) of the Social Security Act 1986, from the requirement in section 10 of the Social Security Act 1980 to refer proposals to make regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee.\nThe Regulations extend the period during which most young people are ineligible to income support on leaving relevant education (regulation 3); prescribe the circumstances in which persons under the age of 18 years may be entitled to income support and the period of entitlement (regulations 4 and 8); amend the provisions under which applicable amounts are calculated in respect of members of polygamous marriages (regulations 5 and 10) and couples (regulations 9 and 10) which include partners under the age of 18 and specify the part of the income of partners under that age which is not to be aggregated with that of claimants when no increase in the applicable amount of claimants is made on account of such partners (regulation 6). The Regulations also provide for a claimant who is a member of a couple responsible for a child, and whose partner is temporarily abroad, not to be required to be available for employment (regulation 7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1228/note",
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  "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."
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