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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirementswales-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2004/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements)(Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-sums-for-personal-requirementswales-regulations-2004",
  "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 Wales are to assume, in the absence of special circumstances, that residents in accommodation arranged under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948, will need for their personal requirements.\nFrom 12th April 2004 all such residents will be assumed to need £18.40 per week for their personal requirements.\nThese regulations supersede the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements)(Wales) Regulations 2003 which are revoked and which prescribed a weekly amount of £17.80.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1024/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:42.412053+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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