Regulation 12 Persons who have been patients in psychiatric hospitals since before 17th November 1975
Where—
for a continuous period beginning before 17th November 1975 a person has been receiving treatment as an in-patient in a special hospital or any other hospital wholly or mainly used for the treatment of persons suffering from mental disorder to whom section 133(1) of the Mental Health Act 1959 or section 101 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960 (provision of pocket-money for in-patients in hospital) applies;
that person is on 24th November 1980 over pensionable age, but is aged less than 80; and
the amount of that person's requirements would, if determined immediately before that day, have been nil by virtue of the exercise of paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the 1976 Act (persons in hospital),
for the purposes of Parts II to IV of the Supplementary Benefit (Requirements) Regulations 1980 the amount of his requirements shall be treated as nil.