Regulation 3 Amendment of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) RegulationsI1

at the beginning of paragraph (7), there shall be inserted “Notwithstanding the provisions of Schedule 2B of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations,”;

after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“(7A)

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (7), where the relevant change of circumstances is that the transferee becomes a patient^f2 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.”.