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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-amendment-regulations-1980/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1136",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-amendment-regulations-1980",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These regulations amend the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) (No. 2) Regulations 1975 (the “principal Regulations”) and, as respects attendance allowance only, the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979.\nRegulation 2 adds a reference to the Defence Council and updates references to health legislation in regulation 3 of the principal Regulations, the effect of which is to render an allowance not payable when a person is in hospital. Regulation 5A of the principal Regulations makes special provision for satisfying the six months qualifying period in cases of relapse; regulation 3 of these regulations adds a new paragraph enabling that regulation to apply to applications for review of awards of an allowance at the lower rate, as well as to claims. Regulation 4 enables an award to cover a period of not more than six months since the expiry of a certificate relating to earlier attendance requirements though that period precedes the date of claim. Regulation 5 relates to non-disclosure to the claimant by the Attendance Allowance Board of medical information considered harmful to his health.\nRegulation 6 amends the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979. Paragraph (1) establishes that those Regulations apply to a claim expressed as an application for review of an earlier determination but where no grounds for such review are disclosed. Paragraph (2) provides for payment of an allowance at a daily instead of a weekly rate during an interval between periods when, by reason of provisions of the principal Regulations concerning persons in hospital or other defined accommodation, no allowance is payable.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1136/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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