Regulation 4 Sum needed for personal requirements

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 £10.85 per week except that, where that person is someone to whom there is payable—

(a)

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

(b)

constant attendance allowance under any Personal Injuries Scheme, Service Pen sions 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 1975^f2,

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

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1975 c. 14; in section 35, subsection (6)(a) was amended by paragraph 63 of Schedule 15 to the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49); 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); subsection (4A) was inserted by paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30); 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 (2B) and (2C) were inserted, and subsection (4) was amended, by section 1 of the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27); and 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(2B)(b), (4), (4A), and (6)(b) were amended, subsection (3) was substituted, and subsections (4)(b) and (5) were repealed, by section 2(1) of and Schedules 2 and 4 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21); see the Disability Living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).