{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1998/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/563",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Council Tax Benefit, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance: Amendments with respect to persons in detention",
  "text": "(1) For the words referred to in each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) below there shall be substituted the words “ who is detained in hospital under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 , or, in Scotland, under the provisions of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 or the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 , ”.\n(2) The words referred to and the provisions specified in this paragraph are—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in the Income Support Regulations—\n(i) in regulation 21(3) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner\", the words from “whose detention is\" to the end of the definition;\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations in regulation 85(4) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner\" the words from “whose detention is\" to “1984\".\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(a)(b) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(c)(ii) revoked (10.4.2006 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), regs. 1(e), 9(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3) revoked (10.4.2006 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), regs. 1(e), 9(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1983 c.72."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1984 c.36."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1995 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "The definition of “prisoner\" was substituted by S.I.1995/516."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/563/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:55.044429+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."
}