{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111525784",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 1st January 2013.\n(3) Regulations 3(2)(a), 4(2)(a), 5 and 6 come into force on 1st April 2013.\n(4) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/213."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/214."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525784/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:32.161813+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."
}