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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-universal-credit-regulations-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111531938",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-universal-credit-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Introduction",
  "text": "(1) This Schedule contains provisions about claimants to whom regulation 26(3) applies.\n(2) Claimants who fall within sub-paragraph (1) are referred to in this Schedule as “owner-occupiers” (and references to “joint owner-occupiers” are to joint claimants to whom regulation 26(3) applies).\n(3) Part 2 of this Schedule sets out an exception to section 11(1) of the Act for certain owner-occupiers in whose case an award of universal credit is not to include an amount of housing costs element calculated under this Schedule.\n(4) Part 3 of this Schedule provides for a qualifying period that is to elapse before an amount of housing costs element calculated under this Schedule may be included in an owner-occupier’s award of universal credit.\n(5) Part 4 provides for the calculation of the amount of housing costs element to be included under this Schedule in an owner-occupier’s award of universal credit.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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