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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/19",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "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 (General) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2887) (“the Disability Working Allowance Regulations”).\nRegulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation, and regulation 2 introduces the amendments.\nRegulation 3 amends Schedule 2 to the Family Credit Regulations and Schedule 3 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (income to be disregarded) so as to add the sum of £15 of any widowed mother’s allowance or widowed parent’s allowance to the categories of income to be disregarded.\nRegulation 4 amends Schedule 3 to the Family Credit Regulations and Schedule 4 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (capital to be disregarded) so as to add payments of £10,000 made by the Secretary of State for Social Security to persons who were held prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two or to the spouses of such persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/19/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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