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Qualified adult (administrative schemes). 
 
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298.—(1) A person who, apart from this section, would be a qualified adult for the purposes of a scheme to which this section applies shall not be a qualified adult for the purposes of that scheme unless the person is a spouse within the meaning of this Act. 
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(2) Notwithstanding any enactment but without prejudice to subsection (1), the circumstances in which there arises an entitlement to— 
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(a) an allowance under a scheme to which this section applies, or 
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(b) an increase in the amount of that allowance, 
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by reference to the status or description of one or both, or all, of 2 or more persons residing or living together are those circumstances expressly set out in the scheme and not otherwise. 
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(3) This section applies to the following schemes administered by the Minister and known as— 
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(a) the Free Travel Scheme, 
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(b) the National Fuel Scheme, 
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(c) the Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme, 
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(d) the Back to Education Allowance, 
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(e) the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance, 
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(f) the Back to Work Allowance (Employees), 
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(g) the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance, 
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(h) the Smokeless Fuels Allowance, and 
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(i) the Household Benefits Package, 
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being, in each case, the scheme in the terms as it has effect on 1 April 2004. 
 
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