{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/486",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-regulations-1997",
  "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 are to assume, in the absence of special circumstances, that residents in accommodation arranged under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948, the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 or section 7 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 will need for their personal requirements.\nFrom 7th April 1997, all residents will be assumed to need £14.10 per week for their personal requirements.\nThese Regulations supersede the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1996 (which provided for the sum residents were assumed to need from 8th April 1996) which are revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/486/note",
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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."
}