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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-and-disability-living-allowance-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1401",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-and-disability-living-allowance-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991 (“the Attendance Allowance Regulations”) and the Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991 (“the Disability Living Allowance Regulations”).\nRegulations 2(2) and 3(2) respectively amend regulation 6 of the Attendance Allowance Regulations and regulations 8 and 12A of the Disability Living Allowance Regulations. The amendments provide that a period during which a person is, or is treated as, receiving free in-patient treatment or is treated as being maintained free of charge while undergoing medical treatment as an in-patient, ends on the day before the day on which he leaves a hospital or similar institution.\nRegulations 2(3) and 3(3) respectively amend regulation 7A of the Attendance Allowance Regulations and regulation 9A of the Disability Living Allowance Regulations by removing the reference to paragraphs (7) and (9) respectively. These amendments are consequential on regulations 2(4) and 3(4) of these Regulations.\nRegulations 2(4) and 3(4) respectively amend regulation 8 of the Attendance Allowance Regulations and regulation 10 of the Disability Living Allowance Regulations to remove the provision which prevents payment of attendance allowance or disability living allowance to certain persons in a residential care home or hospice owned or managed by a local authority.\nThese regulations impose no costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1401/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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