{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-56.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/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Overlapping awards",
  "text": "(1) An award of disabled person’s tax credit (the new award) which is made in consequence of a claim in respect of a period beginning before the commencement of an existing award of disabled person’s tax credit (the existing award) and which overlaps with the period of the existing award, shall be treated as a relevant change of circumstances affecting the existing award and the existing award shall be superseded.\n(2) An award of working families' tax credit which is made in consequence of a claim in respect of a period beginning on or before the commencement of an existing award of disabled person’s tax credit (the existing award) and which overlaps with the period of the existing award, shall be treated as a change of circumstances affecting the existing award and the existing award shall be superseded.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 56 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(b), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 56(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(xx)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 56(1)(2) substituted (5.10.1999) by The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2487), regs. 1(1), 27(1)(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 56(2) 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(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 56(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1944), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 56 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/56",
    "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."
}