# The Social Security (Persons From Abroad) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1996, Regulation 12: Saving


(1) Where, before the coming into force of these Regulations, a person who becomes an asylum seeker under regulation 4A(5)(a)(i) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations, regulation 7A(5)(a)(i) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or regulation 70(3A)(a) of the Income Support Regulations, as the case may be, is entitled to benefit under any of those Regulations, those provisions of those Regulations as then in force shall continue to have effect (both as regards him and as regards persons who are members of his family at the coming into force of these Regulations) as if regulations 3(a) and (b), 7(a) and (b) or 8(2) and (3)(c), as the case may be, of these Regulations had not been made.
(2) Where, before the coming into force of these Regulations, a person, in respect of whom an undertaking was given by another person or persons to be responsible for his maintenance and accommodation, claimed benefit to which he is entitled, or is receiving benefit, under the Council Tax Benefit Regulations, the Housing Benefit Regulations or the Income Support Regulations, as the case may be, those Regulations as then in force shall have effect as if regulations 3, 7 or 8, as the case may be, of these Regulations had not been made.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/30/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-persons-from-abroad-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-12
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