{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2274",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit (Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002",
  "text": "In regulation 36 of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (persons entitled to income support immediately before the appointed day)—\n(a) at the beginning of paragraph (7), there shall be inserted the words “Notwithstanding the provisions of Schedule 3B of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations,”;\n(b) after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted—\n“(7A) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (7), where the relevant change of circumstances is that the transferee becomes a patient again within the same benefit week in which he ceased to be a patient, the superseding decision in respect of becoming a patient again shall take effect from the first day of the benefit week following the benefit week in which the change occurs.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3019."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Patient” means a person (other than a prisoner) who is regarded as receiving free in-patient care within the meaning of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 1975 (S.I. 1975/555)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2274/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:00:10.771111+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."
}