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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/940",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons of a prescribed description",
  "text": "For the purposes of the definition of “family\" in section 74A(5) of the Act, a person of a prescribed description is any person who—\n(a) is referred to as a “young person\" in the Income Support Regulations by virtue of regulation 14 of those Regulations; or\n(b) is referred to as a “young person\" in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations by virtue of regulation 76 of those Regulations; or\n(c) is referred to as a “young person” in the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations by virtue of regulation 2(1) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(c) added (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 59(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/1445 and 1990/547."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/940/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:28.902645+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."
}