Regulation 8 Amendments to the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987

in paragraph (1)^f1 after sub-paragraph (b) add the following sub-paragraph—

“(c)

in respect of any child or young person to whom paragraph (1B) applies, the allowance specified in paragraph (4) of column (2) of Schedule 4.”;

after paragraph (1A)^f2 insert the following paragraphs—

“(1B)

This paragraph applies to a child or young person for whom the claimant or his partner is responsible and who is a member of the claimant’s household, and—

(a)

in respect of whom disability living allowance is payable, or has ceased to be payable solely because he is a patient; or

(b)

who is registered as blind in a register compiled by a local authority under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948^f3 (welfare services) or, in Scotland, has been certified as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a regional or islands council; or

(c)

who ceased to be registered as blind in such a register within the 28 weeks immediately preceding the date of claim.

(1C)

For the purposes of paragraph (1B)(a), “patient” has the same meaning as in regulation 8(3)(a).”