Paragraph 1 Interpretation

In this Schedule—

• “Abbeyfield Home” means an establishment run by the Abbeyfield Society including all bodies corporate or incorporate which are affiliated to that Society;

• “full-time student” has the meaning—

  1. (a)

     in the case of income support in regulation 61(1) of the IS Regulations M1 (interpretation);

  2. (b)

     in the case of jobseeker's allowance, in regulation 1(2) of the JSA Regulations M2 (citation, commencement and interpretation);

  3. (c)

     in the case of employment and support allowance, in regulation 131(1) of the ESA Regulations (interpretation);

  4. (d)

     in the case of state pension credit, in regulation 1(2) of the SPC Regulations M3 (citation commencement and interpretation);

• “independent hospital” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 M4;

• “medically approved” means certified by a medical practitioner;

• “nursing home” has the meaning it has for the purposes of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 by virtue of Article 11 of that Order;

• “patient” means a person who is undergoing medical or other treatment as an inpatient in a hospital or similar institution;

• “period of study” has the meaning—

  1. (a)

     in the case of income support and state pension credit, in regulation 2(1) of the IS Regulations M5;

  2. (b)

     in the case of jobseekers allowance, in regulation 1(2) of the JSA Regulations M6;

  3. (c)

     in the case of employment and support allowance, in regulation 2(1) of the ESA Regulations (interpretation);

• “residential accommodation” means accommodation which is a residential care home, a nursing home, an Abbeyfield Home or independent hospital;

• “residential care home” has the meaning it has for the purposes of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 by virtue of Article 10 of that Order;

• “training course” means a course of training or instruction provided wholly or partly by or on behalf of, or in pursuance of arrangements made with, or approved by or, on behalf of, a government department.

In this Schedule, a reference to a claimant being liable to make owner-occupier payments is to be read as a reference to a person being treated as liable to make owner-occupier payments under Schedule 2 (circumstances in which a claimant is, or is to be treated as, liable to make owner-occupier payments).