{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-4ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987/regulation-4ZA.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1967",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/4ZA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4ZA",
  "heading": "Prescribed categories of person",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1B applies falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to income support).\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a full-time student during the period of study.\n(3) A full-time student during the period of study falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act only if—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) paragraph 1, 2, ... 11, ... 15A, or 18 of Schedule 1B applies to him; ...\n(c) any other paragraph of Schedule 1B applies to him and—\n(i) in the case of a person with a partner, the partner is also a full-time student and either he or his partner is treated as responsible for a child or young person, or\n(ii) in any other case, he is treated as responsible for a child or young person,\nbut this provision applies only for the period of the summer vacation appropriate to his course; ...\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3A) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person to whom section 6 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (exclusion from benefits) applies.\n(4) A person who falls within a prescribed category in Schedule 1B for the purposes of this regulation for any day in a benefit week, shall fall within that category for the whole of that week.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4ZA inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4ZA(2)(3) substituted (31.7.2000) by The Social Security Amendment (Students) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1981), regs. 1(1), 5(5), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4ZA(3)(a) and word omitted (29.10.2013) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2536), regs. 1(1), 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4ZA(3)(b) omitted (30.12.2009) by virtue of The Income Support (Prescribed Categories of Person) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3152), regs. 1, 3(2)(a) (with reg. 3(7))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4ZA(3)(b) inserted (6.4.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/583), regs. 1(2), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 4ZA(3)(c) substituted (9.7.2008) by The Social Security (Students Responsible for Children or Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1826), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 4ZA(3)(d) and word omitted (26.10.2009) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 4ZA(3A) inserted (1.10.2001) by The Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (Commencement No. 2 and Consequential Provisions) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3070), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 4ZA(4) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2197), regs. 1(2), 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1967/regulation/4ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:57.034883+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."
}