The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Income support, jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit: personal allowances in respect of children and young personsE+W+S

2.—(1) Each of the provisions specified in paragraph (7) below (which specify the personal allowances applied in respect of children and young persons when calculating applicable amounts) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) After “2." there shall be inserted “—(1)".

(3) After the word “shall", there shall be inserted the words “, for the relevant period specified in column (1),".

(4) For column (1) of the table there shall be substituted the following—

“Person in respect of the period—

(a)beginning on that person’s date of birth and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s eleventh birthday;

(b)beginning on the first Monday in September following that person’s eleventh birthday and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday;

(c)beginning on the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday and ending on the day preceding that person’s nineteenth birthday.”

(5) In column (2) of the table, the entry (d) shall be omitted.

(6) After the table there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(2) In column (1) of the table in paragraph (1), “the first Monday in September" means the Monday which first occurs in the month of September in any year.”

(7) The provisions specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—

(a)paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations M1;

(b)paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations;

F1(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .