
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 7th April 1997.
2 
The sum which under section 22(4) of the National Assistance Act 1948 a local authority shall assume that a person will need for his personal requirements shall be £14.10 per week.
3 
The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1996 are hereby revoked.
Stephen Dorrell
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State,
Department of Health
26th February 1997