Regulation 3 Amendment of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002
In regulation 36 of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002f1 (persons entitled to income support immediately before the appointed day)—
at the beginning of paragraph (7), there shall be inserted the words “Notwithstanding the provisions of Schedule 3B of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations,”;
after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted—
“(7A)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (7), where the relevant change of circumstances is that the transferee becomes a patientf2 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.”.