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Regulation 3 Sum needed for personal requirements

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The sum which under section 22(4) of the Act a local authority shall assume that a person will need for his personal requirements shall be £10.85 per week, except that in the case of a person to whom there is payable—

(a)

attendance allowance under the provisions of Section 35 of the Social Security Act 1975f1;

(b)

constant attendance allowance under any Personal Injuries Scheme; Service Pensions Instrument or any 1914—18 War Injuries Scheme, or

(c)

disability living allowance by virtue of entitlement to the care component under Section 37ZB of the Social Security Act 1975f2,

that sum shall be increased by the amount of the allowance for each week the allowance is payable.

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f1

1975 c. 14; in section 35, subsections (1), (2), (2B)(a)(i), (2B)(b), (4), (4A), and (6)(b) were amended, subsection (3) was substituted, and subsections (4)(b) and (5) were repealed, by section 2(1) of and Schedules 2 and 4 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21); subsection (1)(b) was substituted by section 1(1) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7); subsections (2), (4) and (4A)were amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 to the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24); subsections (2)(b), and (4)(a) were amended, and subsections (2A) and (5A) were inserted, by section 2 of the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18); subsections (2B) and (2C) were inserted, and subsection (4) was amended, by section 1 of the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27); subsection (4A) was inserted by paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30); and subsection (6)(a) was amended by paragraph 63 of Schedule 15 to the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49). See The Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2617).

f2

1975 c. 14. Section 37ZB was inserted by section 1(2) of the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21).