Regulation 8 Council Tax Benefit, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance: Amendments with respect to persons in detention

England, Wales and Scotland

(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 M1, or, in Scotland, under the provisions of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 M2 or the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 M3, ”.

(2)

The words referred to and the provisions specified in this paragraph are—

F1(a)

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(b)

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(c)

in the Income Support Regulations—

(i)

in regulation 21(3) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner"M4, the words from “whose detention is" to the end of the definition;

F2(ii)

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(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".

F3(3)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 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)
F2: 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.
F3: 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.

Marginal citations

M1: 1983 c.72.
M2: 1984 c.36.
M3: 1995 c.46.
M4: The definition of “prisoner" was substituted by S.I.1995/516.