{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-256",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-256.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/256",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "256",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 38 of the Income Tax Act 2007 is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2), for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) registered as a severely sight-impaired adult in a register kept under section 18(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (registers kept by local authorities in Wales).”\n(3) In subsection (4)—\n(a) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) omit “as a blind person in a register kept under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 or”;\n(ii) after “Care Act 2014” insert “or section 18(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014”;\n(b) in paragraph (b), omit “of blindness or”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 256 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 38(4) was amended by S.I. 2015/914, Schedule, paragraph 88(1), (4)(a)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/413/regulation/256",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:17.878837+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}