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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2887",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991",
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  "number": "12",
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  "text": "(1) Except where sub-paragraph (2) applies and subject to sub-paragraph (3) and paragraphs 29 and 33, £20 of any charitable payment or of any voluntary payment made or due to be made at regular intervals.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) and paragraph 33, any charitable payment or voluntary payment made or due to be made at regular intervals which is intended and used for an item other than food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, or housing costs of any member of the family, or is used for any personal community charge, collective community charge contribution or council tax for which any member of the family is liable.\n(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to a payment which is made or due to be made by—\n(a) a former partner of the claimant, or former partner of any member of the claimant’s family; or\n(b) the parent of a child or young person where that child or young person is a member of the claimant’s family.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) where a number of charitable or voluntary payments fall to be taken into account they shall be treated as though they were one such payment.\n(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) the expression “ordinary clothing or footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sum in Sch. 3 para. 12(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/462), regs. 1(5), 8(d)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 12(2) substituted (1.4.1993) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 17(2)(a)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 12(2) inserted (1.4.1993) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. para. 17(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 12 in force at 7.4.1992, see reg. 1"
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