{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-54.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/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Death of claimant",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), an award of disabled person’s tax credit shall cease to have effect upon the death of the claimant.\n(2) Where a claimant dies and is survived by a partner who was the claimant’s partner at the date of claim, an award of disabled person’s tax credit made in the claimant’s favour shall have effect for its unexpired period as if originally made in favour of the partner.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54(1)(2) 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(xviii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 54 in force at 7.4.1992, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2887/regulation/54",
    "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."
}