Regulation 17 Absence from Great BritainI1
Where C is temporarily absent from Great Britain, C is treated as present in F1the relevant area for the purposes of regulation 16(a) and (b) for the first 13 weeks of absence.
C is temporarily absent if, at the beginning of the period of absence, C's absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (6.11.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland Cross-border Consequential Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1089), regs. 1(2), 5(5) (with reg. 6)
Commencement
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Reg. 17 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) and S.I. 2013/358
Notes on the whole SI
Textual amendments
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See section 173(5)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5) (‘the 1992 Act’). The requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee does not apply where regulations are contained in a statutory instrument made before the end of the period of six months beginning with the coming into force of the enactment under which the regulations were made. Schedule 9, paragraph 26(a) to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) (‘the Act’) inserted a reference to Part 4 of that Act into section 170(5) of the 1992 Act which has the effect of making that Part of the Act a ‘relevant enactment’ and therefore subject to the requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee unless section 173(5) applies.