Regulation 115 Capital jointly held
Except where a claimant possesses capital which is disregarded under regulation 113(4) (notional capital), where a claimant and one or more persons are beneficially entitled in possession to any capital asset, they shall be treated as if each of them were entitled in possession F1to the whole beneficial interest therein in an equal share and the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall apply for the purposes of calculating the amount of capital which the claimant is treated as possessing as if it were actual capital which the claimant does possess.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in reg. 115 substituted (12.10.1998) by The Social Security Amendment (Capital) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2250), regs. 1, 2(1)(2)(f)
Notes on the whole SI
Textual amendments
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Section 35(1) is an interpretation provision: it is cited because it contains powers exercised in these Regulations in the definitions of “employment", “jobseeker's period", “pensionable age", “pensionable payments", “training" and “work" and because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed" and “regulations".
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1992 c.5; section 191 is an interpretation provision and it is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed".
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1992 c.4; sections 171D and 171G(2) were inserted by the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c.18), section 6(1) and have effect for the purposes of the Jobseekers Act 1995 by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to that Act. Section 171G(2) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed".
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See section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5).