{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/regulation-5.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": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 18 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 18 of the General Regulations (polygamous marriages)—\n(a) for the words “Subject to regulations” there shall be substituted the words “(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulations”;\n(b) in paragraph (1)(b) for the words “sub-paragraphs (3)(b) and” there shall be substituted the words “sub-paragraphs (3)(c) and”; and\n(c) at the end of paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraph—\n“(2) In the case of a partner who is aged less than 18, the amount which applies in respect of that partner shall be nil unless—\n(a) that partner is treated as responsible for a child, or\n(b) that partner is a person who—\n(i) had he not been a member of a polygamous marriage would have been eligible for income support by virtue of regulation 13A (circumstances in which a person aged 16 or 17 is eligible for income support); or\n(ii) is a person in respect of whom there is a direction under section 20(4A) of the Act (income support to avoid severe hardship).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sub-section (4A) of section 20 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) was inserted by section 4(2) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1228/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:27.644688+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."
}