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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-war-pension-disregards-amendment-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3389",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (War Pension Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-war-pension-disregards-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (War Pension Disregards) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1619) (“the War Pension Disregards Regulations”).\nSections 134(8)(a) and 139(6)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 allow local authorities administering schemes for housing benefit and council tax benefit to modify those schemes to disregard prescribed war disablement pensions and war widow’s pensions. The Schedule to the War Pension Disregards Regulations prescribes the pensions in respect of which the schemes can be modified.\nRegulation 2 substitutes the Schedule to the War Pension Disregards Regulations. Part 1 has a new paragraph 1(b) which adds certain service attributable pensions to the list of prescribed war disablement pensions. This restores, in an updated form, a provision that was omitted when the Schedule was substituted by the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 7) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3157). Part 2 prescribes war widow’s pensions and includes pensions paid to widowers and surviving civil partners. It has a new paragraph 2(b) which makes similar provision in respect of war widow’s pensions as the new paragraph 1(b) in Part 1 does in respect of war disablement pensions.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3389/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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