{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/547",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 4 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 4 of the General Regulations (temporary absence from Great Britain)—\n(a) in paragraph (1) for the words from “shall continue during” to the end there shall be substituted the words—\n“shall continue only—\n(a) in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), during the first 4 weeks of that period of temporary absence; and\n(b) in the circumstances specified in paragraph (3), during the first 8 weeks of that period.”;\n(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraphs—\n“(3) The circumstances in which a claimant’s entitlement to income support is to continue during the first 8 weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain are that—\n(a) the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks; and\n(b) the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to income support; and\n(c) the claimant is, or the claimant and any other member of his family are, accompanying a member of the claimant’s family who is a child or young person solely in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of that child or young person for a disease or bodily or mental disablement; and\n(d) those arrangements relate to treatment—\n(i) outside Great Britain;\n(ii) during the period whilst the claimant is, or the claimant and any member of his family are, temporarily absent from Great Britain; and\n(iii) by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.\n(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3) “appropriately qualified” means qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 9.4.1990, see reg. 1(1)(b)(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/547/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:39.315395+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."
}