{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-2001/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Period for, or in respect of which, discretionary housing payments may be made",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a relevant authority may restrict the period for or in respect of which discretionary housing payments may be made to such period as it considers appropriate in the particular circumstances of a case.\n(2) A relevant authority may make discretionary housing payments to a person only in respect of a period during which that person is or was entitled to housing benefit or relevant award of universal credit ....",
  "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. 5 substituted (7.4.2008) by The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/637), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(2) inserted (10.6.2013) by The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1139), regs. 1, 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(2) revoked (1.4.2013) by The Council Tax Benefit Abolition (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/458), reg. 1, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1167/regulation/5",
    "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."
}