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These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st September 2003.
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(1) The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) Regulations 1994 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 1(2) (definitions) at the appropriate place in the alphabetical order, insert —“
 “foster parent” means a person approved as —
(a) a foster parent in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of the Fostering Services Regulations 2002 (approval of foster parents); or
(b) a foster carer in accordance with the provisions of Part II of the Fostering of Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (approval of foster carers);”.
(3) In regulation 2 (preclusion from regular employment for the purpose of paragraph 5(7)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Act) —
(a) after paragraph (2)(b), add —“
(c) that he was a foster parent.”;
(b) after paragraph (5)(a), insert —“
(aa) in the case of a person who satisfies the condition in paragraph (2)(c) above in respect of the year 2003-04 or any subsequent year, if he does not furnish such information as the Secretary of State may from time to time require which is relevant to the question of whether in that year he was precluded from regular employment by responsibilities at home within the meaning of these Regulations; or”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Malcolm Wicks
Minister of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
14th July 2003