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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/664",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-assessment-of-resources-amendment-regulations-1998",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1989 so as to—\n(a) increase the income limit for non-contributory civil legal aid from £2,563 to £2,625; the upper income limit is increased from £7,595 to £7,777; for personal injury cases the upper income limit is increased from £8,370 to £8,571 (regulation 2);\n(b) make further provision for a deduction to be made for a dependent child or a dependent relative aged 19 or over when computing the income of a person during the assessment of his resources in respect of an application for legal aid (regulation 4);\n(c) change the definition of pensionable age for a man from 65 to 60 in Schedule 2 to the 1989 Regulations; this relates to the amount of capital which may be disregarded for pensioners on low incomes during the computation of their capital for a legal aid application (regulation 6); and\n(d) make other minor amendments (regulations 3 and 5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/664/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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