{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/84",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 22(4) of the National Assistance Act 1948 as applied by section 87(3) and (4) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (“the 1968 Act”) requires a local authority to assume in assessing a person’s liability to pay for accommodation provided under the 1968 Act or section 7 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 that he or she will need for his or her personal requirements such sum per week as may be prescribed by regulations.\nThese Regulations prescribe that from 11th April 2005 that sum will be £18.80 per week.\nThese Regulations revoke the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/106) which provided for the sum persons were assumed to need from 12th April 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/84/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:32.558344+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."
}