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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-claims-and-payments-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-claims-and-payments-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2017/227",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Claims and Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-claims-and-payments-scotland-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Tenants to be advised that they can request direct payments for rent and services",
  "text": "(1) Every person entitled to request direct payments under regulation 4(1) must be advised that he or she can request to have an amount of universal credit paid directly, as described in that regulation.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where the Secretary of State is arranging, or has arranged, for universal credit to be paid directly.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 4.10.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/227/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:17:46.294120+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."
}