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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-up-rating-regulations-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/845",
  "legislation_title": "The Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-up-rating-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations supersede the Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1039).\nRegulation 2 provides that where a question has arisen about the effect of the Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Order 2012 or the Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating (Northern Ireland) Order 2012 (“the Up-rating Orders”) on a guardian’s allowance already in payment, the altered rates will not apply until that question is determined by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, an appeal tribunal or a Commissioner.\nRegulation 3 applies the provisions of regulation 5 of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations 1975 and regulation 5 of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1978 so as to restrict the application of the increases specified in the Up-rating Orders in cases where the beneficiary lives abroad.\nA full Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/845/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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