SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990 and shall, subject to paragraph (2), come into force as follows– a regulations 1 and 2, on 2nd July 1990; b regulations 3 and 4, on 13th August 1990. 2 These Regulations shall come into force in relation to a particular claimant at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after the date specified in paragraph (1) 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 Schedule 2 to the General Regulations 2 In Schedule 2 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts), in paragraph 1, for sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs– 1 Single claimant aged– a except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18;(1)(a) £21.90; b less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in Part II of Schedule 1A or who, had he been a registered person, would fall within any of those circumstances and who– (b) £28.80; i is eligible for income support under regulation 13A; or ii is the subject of a direction under section 20(4A) of the Act; c less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(a); (c) £28.80; d not less than 18 but less than 25; (d) £28.80; e not less than 25. (e) £36.70. 2 Lone parent aged– a except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18; (1)(a) £21.90; b less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in Part II of Schedule 1A or who, had he been a registered person, would fall within any of those circumstances and who– (b) £28.80; i is eligible for income support under regulation 13A; or ii is the subject of a direction under section 20(4A) of the Act; c less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(a); (c) £28.80; d not less than 18. (d) £36.70. . Amendment of Schedule 4 to the General Regulations 3 In Schedule 4 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes)– a in paragraph 6– i in sub-paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (e)(ii) and (f), for the figure “£150.00” in each of those sub-paragraphs there shall be substituted the figure “£155.00”; ii in sub-paragraph (1)(d), for the figure “£175.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£180.00”; iii in sub-paragraph (1)(e)(i), for the figure “£210.00” there shall be substi tuted the figure “£215.00”; iv in sub-paragraph (2), for the figure “£165.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£170.00”; b in paragraph 7– i in sub-paragraph (a), (c), (d)(ii) and (f), for the figure “£200.00” in each of those sub-paragraphs there shall be substituted the figure “£210.00”; ii in sub-paragraph (b), for the figure “£215.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£225.00”; iii in sub-paragraph (d)(i), for the figure “£245.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£255.00”; iv in sub-paragraph (e), for the figure “£245.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£260.00”. Amendment of Schedule 7 to the General Regulations 4 In Schedule 7 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts in special cases) in paragraph 13A(2) in column (2), in heads (a), (b)(i) and (b)(iii), for the figure “£150.00” there shall be substituted in each of those heads the figure “£155.00”. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security Nicholas Scott Minister of State, Department of Social Security 1st June 1990