{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-55.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/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Prevention of duplication of awards of working families' tax credit, disabled person’s tax credit and income support",
  "text": "Where provision is made for the same child or young person in awards for overlapping periods, the first being an award of disabled person’s tax credit and the second an award of disabled person’s tax credit, working families' tax credit , income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income support, and at the start of the period of overlap that child or young person is no longer a member of the household of the claimant under the first award, the first award shall terminate with effect from the start of the period of overlap.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55 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(xix)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55 substituted (5.10.1999) by The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2487), regs. 1(1), 26(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 55 inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 7(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 55 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/55",
    "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."
}