SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall, subject to paragraph (2) below, come into force as follows— a regulations 1 and 9 and 10, on 13th March 1991; b regulations 2 to 8 and 11 to 14, on 8th April 1991; 2 These Regulations shall not apply in relation to a particular claimant until the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after the date specified in paragraph (1) above which applies in his case; and for this purpose the expressions “claimant” and “benefit week” have the same meanings as in the General Regulations . 3 In these Regulations “the General Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 . Amendment of regulations 2, 9, 10, 11 and 13A of, and Schedules 2 and 7 to, the General Regulations 2 1 In the provisions of the General Regulations specified in this paragraph for the words “Training Commission”, there shall be substituted the words “Secretary of State for Employment”— a regulation 2 (interpretation) in paragraph (a) of the definition of “training allowance”; b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e paragraph 7(b) of Schedule 2 (premiums); f paragraph 10(e), in column 1 of Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases). 2 In regulation 2 in paragraph (c) of the definition of “training allowance”, for the words “that Commission” there shall be substituted the words “the Secretary of State for Employment”. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 8 of the General Regulations 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 11 of the General Regulations 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 13 of the General Regulations 5 In regulation 13(2)(d) of the General Regulations (circumstances in which persons in relevant education may be entitled to income support) for the words “parents or any” there shall be substituted the words “parents and any”; and for the words “parents or that person” there shall be substituted the words “parents and that person”. Amendment of regulation 13A of the General Regulations 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 21 of the General Regulation 7 In regulation 21(3)(a) of the General Regulations (special cases) after the words “on 11th December 1953),” there shall be inserted the words “a state which is a signatory to the Council of Europe Social Charter (signed in Turin on 18th October 1961),”. Amendment of regulation 22 of the General Regulations 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulations 40 and 66A of the General Regulations 9 In regulations 40(3A) and 66A(1) of the General Regulations (calculation of income other than earnings and treatment of student loans) after the words “Education (Student Loans) Act 1990” there shall be inserted in each of those regulations the words “or article 3 of the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 ”. Amendment of Schedule 1 to the General Regulations 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of Schedule 1A to the General Regulations 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of Schedule 3 to the General Regulations 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of Schedule 7 to the General Regulations 13 In Schedule 7 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts in special cases), in paragraph 17, head (ii) of sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted. Amendment of Schedule 9 to the General Regulations 14 In Schedule 9 to the General Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) in paragraph 9 after the words “nursing home” there shall be inserted the words “and he is not a person to whom Part II of Schedule 4 applies (persons to whom regulation 19 does not apply)”. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Nicholas Scott Minister of State, Department of Social Security 13th February 1991