Regulation 2 Amendment of regulation 3 of the General Regulations
Regulation 3 of the General Regulationsf1 (interpretation) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.
In paragraph (1)—
in the definition of “child”, for the words “(General) Regulations 1987” there shall be substituted the words “Regulationsf4 or, as the case may be, of regulation 76 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations”;
after the definition of “funeral payment”, there shall be inserted the following definition—
““income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers Act 1995f5 by virtue of section 1(4) of that Act;”.
After paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(1A)For the purposes of Part III of these Regulations, persons are to be treated as being members of the same household where such persons were partners and either or both or any or all of those persons are permanently in residential accommodation or a residential care home or a nursing home as defined for the purposes of the Income Support Regulations or, as the case may be, of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.”.
In paragraph (2)—
after the word “(3)”, there shall be inserted the words “(a) to (d)”;
for the words “(General) Regulations 1987” there shall be substituted the words “Regulationsf6 or, as the case may be, in regulation 78(2) and (3)(a) to (c) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations”.