{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1973",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Applicable amount",
  "text": "(1) The applicable amount for the purposes of section 20(5)(a) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to working families' tax credit) shall be £94.50 per week.\n(2) For the purposes of section 20(5A) of the Act (date on which applicable amount is to be determined) the prescribed date is the date on which the period under section 20(6) of the Act (period of the award) begins.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47(1) substituted (5.10.1992) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47(1) substituted (5.10.1999) by The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2487), regs. 1(1), 26(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(xvi)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 47(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by Tax Credits Up-rating Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/829), arts. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 47(2) inserted (11.4.1988) by Family Credit (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/660), reg. 1, 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1973/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:16.817264+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."
}