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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-consequential-amendments-scotland-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/65",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-consequential-amendments-scotland-regulations-2013",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments of secondary legislation in consequence of the introduction of the allowance known as personal independence payment under Part 4 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The provisions of most significance are as follows.\nRegulation 5 amends the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Regulations 2000. A new regulation 4(2)(aa) is inserted in those Regulations so as to make eligible for a disabled person’s badge certain recipients of personal independence payment.\nRegulation 6 amends regulation 2 of the Student Loans (Scotland) Regulations 2000 so as to include personal independence payment within the definition of “disability related benefit”. The result is that a person in receipt of personal independence payment may have his or her loan liability cancelled out if permanently unfit for work.\nRegulation 9 amends the National Bus Travel Concession Scheme for Older and Disabled Persons (Eligible Persons and Eligible Services) (Scotland) Order 2006. Article 3 of that Order is amended so as to make recipients of personal independence payment eligible persons for the purposes of the National Bus Travel Concession Scheme.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/65/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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