Contents
1Title, commencement, interpretation and application#
(1)The title of these Regulations is The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources and Sums for Personal Requirements) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009.
(2)These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2009.
(3)In these Regulations, “the Principal Regulations” (“y Prif Reoliadau”) means the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992.
(4)These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
2Sums needed for personal requirements#
The sum which a local authority assumes a person to need for his or her personal requirements under section 22(4) of the National Assistance Act 1948 is £22.00 per week.
3Revocation#
Regulations 2, 3, 4, 5 of the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources and Sums for Personal Requirements) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2008 are hereby revoked.
4Amendment of regulation 28A of the Principal Regulations#
In paragraph (2) of regulation 28A of the Principal Regulations (Calculation of tariff income from capital — Wales) replace the figure “£19,000” with the figure “£20,750” in both places where it appears.
5Amendment of Schedule 3 to the Principal Regulations#
In paragraph 28H—
(a)in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) replace the figure “£5.45” with the figure “£5.65” at each place where it appears; and
(b)in sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) replace the figure of “£8.15” with the figure “£8.45” in each place where it appears.
6Amendment of Schedule 4 to the Principal Regulations#
In Schedule 4 to the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 (capital to be disregarded)—
(a)in paragraph 2(2) for “whom the resident is liable to maintain by virtue of section 42(1) of the National Assistance Act 1948 (liability to maintain wife or husband and children).” substitute “of the resident”; and
(b)after sub-paragraph (2) insert—“3 In this paragraph a reference to a child shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987.”
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