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  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The resources of any person who, under section 17 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 is liable to maintain a child or who usually contributes substantially to a child’s maintenance, or who has care and control of the child, not being a person who has such care and control by reason of any contract for some temporary purpose, may be treated as the resources of the child, if, having regard to all the circumstances, including the age and resources of the child and to any conflict of interest, it appears just and equitable to do so.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 71; section 17 was amended by the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 16."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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