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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance (General) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 7th October 1997.
(2) In relation to any particular claimant for either family credit or disability working allowance, regulations 2, 3 and 4 of these Regulations shall have effect, where a claimant has an award of either of those benefits—
(a) which expires on 6th October 1997, on 7th October 1997;
(b) which expires after 6th October 1997, on the day following the expiration of that award.
(3) In these Regulations—
 “the Disability Working Allowance Regulations” means the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991;
 “the Family Credit Regulations” means the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987.
2 
In regulation 4(4)(c)(ii)(bb) of the Family Credit Regulations (remunerative work), after the words “the date of claim”, there shall be inserted the words “or he has, in the five weeks immediately preceding the week of claim, increased the number of hours that he works from below 16 hours to 16 hours or more per week,”.
3 
For the entries in column (2) of Schedule 4 to the Family Credit Regulations against paragraph 3 (maximum credits in respect of young persons) there shall be substituted the entry “£24.80.”.
4 
For paragraph 4 in column (2) of Schedule 5 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (maximum allowances in respect of young persons) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“
4. £24.80.”
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(1) The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 1(5) (citation, commencement and interpretation), for the words from “which is current” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words—“—
(a) which expires on 6th October 1997, on 7th October 1997;
(b) which expires after 6th October 1997, on the day following the expiration of that award.”.
(3) In regulation 10(3) (transitional provisions), after the words “of these Regulations” there shall be inserted the words—“or regulation 3 or 4 of the Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance (General) Amendment Regulations 1997.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Roger Evans
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
12th March 1997