{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2887",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Applicable amount",
  "text": "(1) The applicable amount for the purposes of section 20(6A) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to disabled person’s tax credit) shall, in the case of a claimant who is—\n(a) single, be £72.25 per week;\n(b) a member of a married or unmarried couple, or a lone parent, be £92.90 per week.\n(2) For the purposes of section 20(6D) of the Act (date on which applicable amount is to be determined) the prescribed date is the date on which the period under section 20(6F) of the Act (period of award) begins.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52 substituted (5.10.1992) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(1) substituted (5.10.1999) by The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2487), regs. 1(1), 26(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(xvi)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sum in Reg. 52(1)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits Up-rating Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1141), arts. 1(1), 4(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sum in Reg. 52(1)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits Up-rating Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1141), arts. 1(1), 4(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 52 in force at 7.4.1992, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsection (5A) was inserted by section 3 of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/829",
      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits Up-rating Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/829",
      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits Up-rating Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2887/regulation/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:00.399326+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."
}