{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1999/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1539",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 72 of the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "Regulation 72 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (time and manner in which claims are to be made) shall be amended as follows–\n(a) in paragraph (4), at the end there shall be added the following sub-paragraph–\n“(d) may, in the case of a claimant who has attained the age of 16 but not the age of 60 and is not engaged in remunerative work, be sent or delivered to a gateway office.”;\n(b) in paragraph (5), after the words “Subject to paragraphs (11), (16) and (17)” there shall be inserted the words “and to regulation 72A”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (5) was amended by S.I. 1996/1510."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1539/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:36.797688+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."
}