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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-regulations-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-regulations-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2740",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-regulations-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations replace with amendments the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) (No. 2) Regulations 1975 (S.I. 1975/598) and are consequential upon the changes made to attendance allowance by section 2(1) of the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 which provides in particular that a person shall not be entitled to an attendance allowance unless he is aged 65 or over.\nRegulation 1 contains provisions relating to citation, commencement and interpretation.\nRegulation 2 sets out the conditions as to residence and presence in Great Britain which a person must satisfy to qualify for an attendance allowance.\nRegulation 3 specifies when the qualifying period provided for in section 35(2)(b) of the Social Security Act 1975 may occur when entitlement to an attendance allowance has been interrupted and regulation 4 enables an attendance allowance to be paid before the date of claim in renewal cases.\nRegulation 5 relates specifically to persons undergoing renal dialysis and provides that in certain circumstances such persons shall be entitled to an attendance allowance.\nRegulations 6, 7 and 8 impose restrictions on the payment of benefit where a person is accommodated in hospital or is in certain accommodation where the cost is or may be met out of public or local funds.\nRegulation 9 revokes the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) (No. 2) Regulations 1975.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2740/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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