{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1167",
  "legislation_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 2nd July 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006; and\n“the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006.\n“the Universal Credit Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations 2013;\n“relevant award of universal credit” means an award of universal credit the calculation of which includes an amount under section 11 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, calculated in accordance with Schedule 4 to the Universal Credit Regulations, or would include such an amount but for paragraph 3(h) or (i) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations;\n“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (S.) (1.4.2024) by The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/58), regs. 1(1), 2; (E.) (1.4.2026) by The Discretionary Financial Assistance and Discretionary Housing Payments (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/271), reg. 1(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 1(2) substituted (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 18(2) (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) added (10.6.2013) by The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1139), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (14.2.2018) by The Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/65), regs. 1(2), 2(a) (with reg. 8(2)(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1167/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:53:25.901979+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."
}