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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/632",
  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987 by–\n(1) omitting Schedule 2, paragraph 4 of the 1987 Regulations to enable a child’s resources to be separately assessed and no longer taken to include sums payable for his maintenance (regulation 4);\n(2) amending Schedule 2, paragraph 5 of the 1987 Regulations to allow account to be taken of resources of which an applicant has deprived himself for whatever reason (regulation 5);\n(3) allowing an additional disregard of capital on a sliding scale in respect of persons of pensionable age where their disposable income (excluding investment income) is below the free income limit (regulation 6);\n(4) allowing a disregard in respect of capital payments made in relation to the incident which has led to the litigation (eg disaster fund payments) (regulation 7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/632/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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