Regulation 8 Amendment of regulation 11 of the Conditions of Entitlement Regulations

In regulation 11 of the Conditions of Entitlement Regulations (circumstances in which persons treated as receiving relevant education are to be entitled to supplementary benefit) after paragraph (e) there shall be added the following—

“(f)

he is living away from his parents or any person acting in the place of his parents and his parents are or, as the case may be, that person is, unable financially to support him and is—

(i)

chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Supplementary Benefit (Single Payments) Regulations 1981; or

(ii)

in prison; or

(iii)

prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain; and, in this regulation, any reference to a“person”acting in the place of a claimant’s parent or parents includes, for the purposes of paragraphs (c) and (d), a reference to a local authority or voluntary organisation where the claimant is in their care under a relevant enactment or any person with whom he is boarded out by them whether or not any payment is made, in this respect, by that local authority or voluntary organisation and, for the purposes of paragraph (f), any such person with whom he has been so boarded out.”.