Regulation 13 Applicable amount in hardship cases

in paragraph (1) for the words from “The weekly” to “following amount” there shall be substituted—

“The weekly applicable amount of a person to whom an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable in accordance with this Part shall be reduced by a sum equivalent to 40 per cent. or, in a case where the claimant or any other member of his family is either pregnant or is seriously ill, 20 per cent. of the following amount—”;

paragraph (2) shall be omitted, and

in paragraph (3) “or (2)” shall be omitted.