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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/660",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 with effect from 11 April 1988.\nThey amend Part IV to provide, in the calculation of income and capital, for the disregard of charitable payments made to haemophiliacs under the Macfarlane Trust and certain other payments (regulations 2, 8(a), 9(a), 13 and 14); for statutory sick pay and maternity pay under Northern Ireland legislation to be treated as earnings (regulation 5); for calculating social security contributions payable on earnings at the rates applying at the date of claim (regulations 6, 7 and 8(b)); and for apportioning student grants intended for maintenance of older students (regulation 10); and make certain other minor amendments to that Part (regulations 4 and 9(b)).\nThey also make provision for the maximum family credit to be determined by reference to the credits specified and the age of a child or young person at the date of the award (regulation 11); prescribe the date at the beginning of the award as the date on which the applicable amount is to be determined (regulation 12); and define “patient” for the purposes of determining whether a person is to be treated as a member of the household (regulation 3).\nThe Regulations are made before the expiry of 12 months from the commencement of the provisions 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",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/660/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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