{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2002/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2002/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3019",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 13",
  "text": "In regulation 13 (income support and social fund determinations on incomplete evidence)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (a), substitute—\n“(a) a determination falls to be made by the Secretary of State as to what housing costs are to be included in—\n(i) a claimant’s applicable amount by virtue of regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Income Support Regulations; or\n(ii) a claimant’s appropriate minimum guarantee by virtue of regulation 6(6)(c) and Schedule II to the State Pension Credit Regulations; and”\nand for the words “applicable amount are those”, substitute “ applicable amount or, as the case may be, appropriate minimum guarantee are those ”; and\n(b) after paragraph (2), add—\n“(3) Where, for the purposes of a decision under section 8 or 10—\n(a) a determination falls to be made by the Secretary of State as to whether a claimant’s appropriate minimum guarantee includes an additional amount in accordance with regulation 6(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule I to, the State Pension Credit Regulations; and\n(b) it appears to the Secretary of State that he is not in possession of all the evidence or information which is relevant for the purpose of such a determination,\nhe shall make the determination on the assumption that the relevant evidence or information which is not in his possession is adverse to the claimant.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3019/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:37:49.199933+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."
}