{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/73",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirements-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "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 25 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 that they will need for their personal requirements such sum per week as may be prescribed by regulations.\nThese Regulations prescribe that from 6th April 2009 that sum will be £21.90 per week.\nThese Regulations revoke the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 which previously prescribed £21.15 as the sum persons were assumed to need for personal requirements per week.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/73/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:02:55.948632+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."
}