{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/663",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 16 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 16 of the General Regulations (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household)—\n(a) in paragraph (1) for the words “where any of them” there shall be substituted the words “notwithstanding that any of them”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) at the end there Shall be added the words “unless that person has been a patient within the meaning of regulation 21(3) for a period in excess of 52 weeks and is not a member of a couple or of a polygamous marriage”;\n(c) in paragraph (3)(c) for the words “paragraph (a)” there shall be substituted the words “in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d)”;\n(d) in paragraph (5)—\n(i) for the words “and he” there shall be substituted the words “and who”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “residential accommodation” there shall be substituted the words “accommodation provided under any of the provisions referred to in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of residential accommodation in regulation 21(3)”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/663/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:14.959493+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."
}