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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-assessment-of-resources-amendment-no-2-scotland-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/389",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Amendment (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2977) (the “principal Regulations”). The principal Regulations concern the assessment of a person’s liability to pay for accommodation provided under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49) (the “1968 Act”). By virtue of section 87(3) of the 1968 Act, accommodation provided under the 1968 Act or section 7 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 36) shall be regarded as accommodation provided under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948.\nRegulation 2 amends Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations to provide that any payments to students intended to meet the child care costs of their dependant children are to be disregarded as income in the financial assessment of that person’s resources.\nRegulation 3 amends Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations to provide that payments made under section 2 or 3 of the Age Related Payments Act 2004 (c. 10) and that any payments to students intended to meet the child care costs of their dependant children are to be disregarded as capital in the financial assessment of that person’s resources.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/389/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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