{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-transitional-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-transitional-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1974",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (Transitional) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-transitional-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —\n“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1986;\n“appropriate office” means an office of the Department of Social Security;\n“child” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Act ;\n“family” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Act;\n“family income supplement” means benefit under the Family Income Supplements Act 1970 ;\n“married or unmarried couple” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Act;\n“renewal claim” means a claim for family income supplement which is so described in regulation 3(2) of the Family Income Supplements (General) Regulations 1980 ;\n“young person” means a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is receiving full-time education within section 2(1)(b) of the Child Benefit Act 1975 .\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations, and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (28.11.1988) by S.I. 1988.1843, art. 1, 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 20(11) for definitions."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1970 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1437, amended by S.I. 1984/979."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1975 c. 61, as amended by section 70 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1974/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:42.543471+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."
}