{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-52.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/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Prescribed circumstances for entitlement to working families' tax credit",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 20(5)(bb) of the Act (prescribed circumstances) where a claimant or a member of his family is entitled to disabled person’s tax credit, he is entitled to working families' tax credit, if—\n(a) at the date of the claim for working families' tax credit the award of disabled person’s tax credit for him or a member of his family will expire within 42 days; and\n(b) the claimant is or would be otherwise entitled to working families' tax credit by virtue of these Regulations; and\n(c) the claim for working families' tax credit is made in respect of a period which commences immediately after the expiry of the award of disabled person’s tax credit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Part VII inserted (7.4.1992) by The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887), regs. 1, 58(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52 substituted (5.10.1999) by The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2487), regs. 1(1), 26(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52 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(xxii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1973/regulation/52",
    "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."
}