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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2434",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 3rd November 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992;\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1814 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2434/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:50:40.164715+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."
}