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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1807",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-2000",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1973) (“the Family Credit Regulations”) and the Disability Working Allowance Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887) (“the Disability Working Allowance Regulations”).\nRegulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and effect.\nRegulations 2 to 9 amend the Family Credit Regulations.\nRegulation 2 introduces regulations 3 to 9.\nRegulation 3 extends regulation 4(4)(c)(ii)(bb) of the Family Credit Regulations (average hours worked for self-employed earners) to company directors.\nRegulations 4, 5 and 7 make various amendments to regulations 37, 38 and 42A of the Family Credit Regulations (definitions, student grants and student loans).\nRegulation 6 inserts a new regulation 42ZA in the Family Credit Regulations (disregard of lump sum access fund payment in calculating amount of student’s capital for the purpose of working families' tax credit).\nRegulations 8 and 9 amend regulation 46 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Family Credit Regulations so as to add a disabled child’s credit to the computation of working families' tax credit.\nRegulations 10 to 16 amend the Disability Working Allowance Regulations.\nRegulation 10 introduces regulations 11 to 16.\nRegulation 11 amends regulation 4 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations and provides that a declaration of physical or mental disability by a claimant on an initial claim for disabled person’s tax credit is not conclusive that he has a disability where the claim is based on the fast track procedure for claiming disabled person’s tax credit on or after 1st October 2000.\nRegulations 12, 13 and 15 amend regulations 41, 42 and 47 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (definitions, student grants and student loans).\nRegulation 14 inserts a new regulation 46A in the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (disregard of lump sum access fund payment in calculating amount of student’s capital for the purpose of disabled person’s tax credit).\nRegulation 16 prescribes the minimum amount of a claimant’s earnings reduction due to disability for the purposes of the fast track procedure for claiming disabled person’s tax credit on or after 1st October 2000.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1807/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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