Regulation 7 Amendment of regulation 16 of the General RegulationsI1

in sub-paragraph (a), at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “in a case which does not fall within sub-paragraph (aa),” and for the words “with the date” there shall be substituted the words “on the day which immediately follows the day”;

after sub-paragraph (a), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa)

where regulation 4(3) or paragraph 11A or 12A of Schedule 7 (temporary absence abroad for the treatment of a child or young person) applies, has been continuously absent from Great Britain for a period of more than 8 weeks, that period of 8 weeks commencing—

(i)

where he went abroad before the date of the claim for income support, on the date of that claim;

(ii)

in any other case, on the day which immediately follows the day on which he went abroad; or”.