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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1438",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987. They provide for work to be treated as remunerative work only if the person is employed at the date of claim (regulation 2); for the disregard of any period in the assessment period of self-employed earners to be not less than complete weeks (regulation 3); and for the weekly earnings of such earners to be determined by dividing earnings over the assessment period by the number of weeks in that period (regulation 4). They also provide for members of the family to be treated as possessing income or capital used for ordinary clothing or footwear (regulation 5); for an increase in the student disregard for books or equipment (regulation 7); for the disregard of payments made by the Secretary of State to compensate for the loss of housing benefit, any payment in kind made by a charity, and payments to persons participating in training (regulations 8 and 9(c)); and for certain other minor amendments (regulations 6 and 9(a) and (b)).\nThese Regulations are made before the expiry of 12 months from the commencement of the enactments under which they are made; they are accordingly exempt by section 61(5) of the Social Security Act 1986 from reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee and have not been so referred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1438/note",
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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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