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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-electronic-communications-order-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2968",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Electronic Communications) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-electronic-communications-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order enables the use of electronic communications in connection with claims for and awards of housing benefit and council tax benefit. The Order amends four instruments to the same effect. These are the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006, the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006, the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 and the Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been carried out in respect of this Order as it does not impose a cost on business, charities or the voluntary sector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2968/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:16:12.782270+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."
}