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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-amendment-regulations-2017/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-amendment-regulations-2017/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/271",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make consequential amendments to the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1724) and the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3061) to take account of changes made by the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (c. 7) to child tax credit legislation set out in the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21).\nRegulation 2 substitutes regulation 1A(3)(d) of the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 to provide that where a person is in receipt of a specified benefit and has been awarded child tax credit, that person will only qualify for a cold weather payment by virtue of that child tax credit where the child tax credit contains a disability element.\nRegulation 3 amends the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 2005 to ensure that, provided other specified conditions are also met, a claimant will be entitled to a Sure Start Maternity Grant or a funeral payment where the claimant (or the claimant’s partner) has been awarded child tax credit which includes an individual element or a disability element.\nA full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/271/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."
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