{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/114",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Sum needed for personal requirements",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 22(4) of the National Assistance Act 1948, as applied by section 87(3) and (4) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (the amount which a local authority shall assume that a person will need for his personal requirements per week), the amount prescribed is £19.60.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The previous sum was £18.80, provided for by the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/84), which are revoked by these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/114/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:59.904797+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."
}