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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-assessment-of-resources-regulations-1992/regulation-29",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2977",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-assessment-of-resources-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“payment” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 54 of the Income Support Regulations (interpretation), but as though sub-paragraph (h) of the definition in that regulation were omitted and as though the reference in it to a “liable relative” were to a liable relative as defined in regulation 2(1) of these Regulations;\n“periodical payment” means—\n(a) a payment which is made or due to be made to a resident at regular intervals in pursuance of a court order or agreement for maintenance;\n(b) in a case where a liable relative has established a pattern of making payments to a resident at regular intervals, any such payment;\n(c) any payment representing a commutation of payments to which sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this definition applies whether made in arrears or advance,\nbut does not include a payment due to be made before the resident was provided with his accommodation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Amended by regulation 23 of S.I. 1988/663."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1730",
      "affecting_title": "The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2977/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:11:04.875329+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."
}