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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-england-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/628",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations set out the weekly sum which local authorities in England are to assume, in the absence of special circumstances, that residents in accommodation arranged under Part 3 of the National Assistance Act 1948 will need for their personal requirements.\nFrom 7th April 2003 all residents will be assumed to need £17.50 per week for their personal requirements.\nThese Regulations also revoke the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2002 (which provided for the sum residents were assumed to need from 8th April 2002).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/628/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:29:36.862176+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."
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