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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-47",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Treatment of student loans",
  "text": "(1) A loan which is made to a student pursuant to arrangements made under section 1 of the Education (Student Loans) Act 1990 or Article 3 of the Education (Student Loans) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 shall be treated as income.\n(2) In calculating the weekly amount of the loan to be taken into account as income—\n(a) except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the loan shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the academic year in respect of which the loan is payable;\n(b) in the case of a loan which is payable in respect of the final academic year of the course or, if the course is only of one academic year’s duration, in respect of that year, the loan shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning with the start of the final academic year or, as the case may be, the single academic year and ending with the last day of the course,\nand from the weekly amount so apportioned there shall be disregarded £10.\n(3) Any loan for which a student is eligible in respect of an academic year under the arrangements mentioned in paragraph (1) but which has not been acquired by him shall be treated as possessed by him and paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply accordingly; and for the purposes of this paragraph the loan for which a student is eligible is the maximum amount payable to him under those arrangements.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 47 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1506 (N.I. 11)."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/462",
      "affecting_title": "The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996"
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    },
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:39.387743+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}