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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/schedule-4/paragraph-38",
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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/38",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any grant made to the claimant in accordance with a scheme made under section 129 of the Housing Act 1988 or section 66 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (schemes for payments to assist local housing authority and local authority tenants to obtain other accommodation) which is to be used—\n(a) to purchase premises intended for occupation as his home; or\n(b) to carry out repairs or alterations which are required to render premises fit for occupation as his home,\nfor a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he received such a grant or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable the purchase, repairs or alterations to be completed and the claimant to commence occupation of those premises as his home.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 38 in force at 7.4.1992, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 43."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits Schemes Amendment (Education Maintenance Allowance) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 8) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1334",
      "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3454",
      "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"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2887/schedule/4/paragraph/38",
    "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."
}