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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/schedule-3C/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/3C/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The cases referred to in paragraph 2 are where—\n(a) entitlement ends, or is expected to end, for a reason other than that the claimant no longer satisfies the provisions of paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform Act ;\n(b) a child or young person referred to in regulation 156(6)(d) or (h) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (child in care of local authority or detained in custody) lives, or is expected to live, with the claimant for part only of the benefit week;\n(c) a person referred to in paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations—\n(i) ceases, or is expected to cease, to be a patient; or\n(ii) a member of the person’s family ceases, or is expected to cease, to be a patient,\nin either case for a period of less than a week;\n(d) a person referred to in paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations—\n(i) ceases to be a prisoner; or\n(ii) becomes a prisoner;\n(e) during the currency of the claim a claimant makes a claim for a relevant social security benefit—\n(i) the result of which is that his benefit week changes; or\n(ii) in accordance with regulation 13 of the Claims and Payments Regulations and an award of that benefit on the relevant day for the purposes of that regulation means that his benefit week is expected to change.\n(f) regulation 9 of the Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991 (persons in care homes) applies, or ceases to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week; ...\n(fa) regulation 22 (effect of admission to a care home on ongoing entitlement to care component) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 applies, or ceases to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week;\n(g) regulations under section 85(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (care home residents) apply, or cease to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week; or\n(h) regulation 27 (effect of admission to a care home on ongoing entitlement to daily living component) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 applies, or ceases to apply, to the claimant for a period of less than one week;",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3C inserted (27.7.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(a), 43"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3C para. 3(f)(g) inserted (29.10.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2536), regs. 1(1), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3C para. 3 omitted (21.3.2025) by virtue of The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 8(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 3C para. 3(fa) inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 8(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 3C para. 3(h) and word inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 8(5)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/991/schedule/3C/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:23.255868+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."
}