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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-charges-for-accommodation-scotland-regulations-1989/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/432",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Charges for Accommodation) (Scotland) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-charges-for-accommodation-scotland-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Sum needed for personal requirements",
  "text": "The sum which a local authority shall under section 22(4) of the Act assume that a person needs for his personal requirements shall be £8.70 per week except that, where that person is someone to whom there is payable attendance allowance under the provisions of section 35 of the Social Security Act 1975( ) or constant attendance allowance under any Personal Injuries Scheme, Service Pensions Instrument or any 1914-18 War Injuries Scheme, the said sum of £8.70 shall in respect of each week there is payable attendance allowance or constant attendance allowance be increased by the amount of such allowance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 14; in section 35, subsections (2)(b), (3) and (4)(a) were amended, and subsections (2A) and (5A) inserted, by the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 2; subsection (4A) was inserted by the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), Schedule 1, paragraph 8; and subsection (6)(a) was amended by the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 63."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/432/regulation/4",
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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."
}