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in accordance with regulations made pursuant to section 57A of the Adoption Act 1976^f1 (permitted allowances) or with a scheme approved by the Secretary of State under section 51 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978^f2 (schemes for payments of allowances to adopters);

which is a payment made by a local authority in pursuance of section 15(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, the Children Act 1989^f3 (local authority contribution to a child’s maintenance where the child is living with a person as a result of a residence order) or, as the case may be, section 50 of the Children Act 1975^f4 (payment towards maintenance of children); to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (2).

to whom regulation 29(2) (capital in excess of £5,000) applies, the whole payment;

to whom that regulation does not apply, so much of the weekly amount of the payment as exceeds the amount included under Schedule 1 in the determination of the relevant person’s applicable amount for that child or young person by way of the personal allowance and disabled child premium, if any.