{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2331",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 97 of the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "Regulation 97 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (offsetting) shall be amended by inserting, after paragraph (1), the following paragraph—\n“(1A) Where an amount has been deducted under regulation 104(1) an equivalent sum shall be offset against any arrears of entitlement under the subsequent determination except to the extent that the sum exceeds the arrears and shall be treated as properly payable on account of them.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971; the relevant amendment is S.I. 1992/432."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2331/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:31:32.967175+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."
}