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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-introduction-of-disability-living-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-introduction-of-disability-living-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1992",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991 (“the Introduction Regulations”) and the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1991 (“the Consequential Regulations”).\nRegulations 2 and 3 make minor changes to regulations 19 and 22 of the Introduction Regulations (claims for attendance allowance or mobility allowance treated as not having been made and determination of claims for, or applications for review of decisions relating to, attendance allowance).\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 23 of the Introduction Regulations by making provision for appeals and applications for leave to appeal to a Social Security Commissioner from decisions of the Attendance Allowance Board after it ceases to exist on 5th April 1992.\nRegulation 5 clarifies regulation 27 of the Introduction Regulations which makes provision for the appointment of persons to receive disability living allowance on behalf of persons unable to act.\nRegulation 6 amends regulation 7 of the Consequential Regulations which in turn amends article 2 of the Tribunals and Inquiries (Social Security Commissioners) Order 1980. The effect of these amendments is that Social Security Commissioners are not required to give reasons for decisions on applications for leave to appeal from decisions of the Attendance Allowance Board and disability appeal tribunals.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/728/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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