‘Treating black as white’

Good afternoon all.

I am sure that I have read in a decision somewhere a reference to the ability of regulations made under a statutory scheme to ‘treat black as if it were white’ or similar. Unfortunately I can’t even remember which benefit was referred to and I don’t want to start on the 224 pages of results that a search for decisions containing ‘treated as’ on the UT website gives just yet…

I have a feeling it might be treating income as capital or vice versa, but that is very close to a complete guess. If anyone either knows exactly the decision I mean, or has a better idea of some parameters that could narrow my search, I would be eternally grateful.

Fear not, I will be duly embarassed if it is a case in which CPAG intervened. Thanks in advance,

Jon

here’s CIS/7097/1995 ....

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/pdfs/cis/7097_95.pdf

I remember this coming up in the debates in Parliament over some of the poers to create deeming provisions in the Jobseekers Bill as it then was - you know, circumstances in which people can be deemed to be available for work when they aren’t and vice versa in section 6 of the Act.

Thanks very much for the replies - greatly appreciated.

Jon