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Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force—

(a)

for the purposes of regulations 1, 2, 3(2)(e), (5) and (6), on 7th April 1997;

(b)

for all other purposes, on 6th October 1997.

(2)

In these Regulations—

  • “the principal Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987f1;

  • “young individual” has the meaning specified in regulation 2 of the principal Regulationsf2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1987/1971; relevant amending instruments S.I. 1990/546, 1992/432, 1995/1644, 2868, 1996/965 and 1944.

f2

The definition of “young individual” was substituted by S.I. 1996/1944.