Explanatory note

These Regulations amend regulation 4 of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976.

Regulation 2 provides that a person who cares for two or more severely disabled persons will be treated as engaged and regularly and substantially engaged in caring for a severely disabled person only where at least 35 hours a week is spent in caring for any one of the severely disabled persons, considered without reference to any other severely disabled person for whom he is caring.

These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.