{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allocation-of-housing-and-homelessness-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/631",
  "legislation_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/allocation-of-housing-and-homelessness-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Amendment) Regulations 1997.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force as follows—\n(a) regulation 1 on 28th March 1997;\n(b) regulations 2 and 3 on 1st April 1997;\n(c) regulations 4 and 5 on 28th March 1997;\n(d) regulation 6(a) on 1st April 1997; and\n(e) regulation 6(b) and (c) 28th March 1997.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“the Allocation Regulations” means the Allocation of Housing Regulations 1996;\n“the Homelessness Regulations” means the Homelessness Regulations 1996; and\n“the Review Regulations” means the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures and Amendment) Regulations 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/2753."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/2754."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/31221996/3122."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt. (defn. rev.) (saving)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/71",
      "affecting_title": "The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/631/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:23:05.523862+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."
}