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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/schedule-4/paragraph-26",
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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",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling.\n(2) In this paragraph “dwelling” includes any garage, garden and outbuildings which were formerly occupied by the claimant as his home and any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 26 in force at 7.4.1992, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits Schemes Amendment (Education Maintenance Allowance) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3085",
      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 8) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits (New Deal Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 6) Regulations 2001"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 9) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/378",
      "affecting_title": "The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2128",
      "affecting_title": "The Secretary of State for Justice Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2887/schedule/4/paragraph/26",
    "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."
}