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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/852",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1997",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Savings",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 3(2)(c) and (d) of these Regulations shall not have effect in the case of a claimant for housing benefit to whom paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies to a claimant—\n(a) who is not a single claimant;\n(b) who is aged less than 25 and is not a young individual; or\n(c) who is aged 60 or over,\nwho makes a further claim for housing benefit under regulation 72(12) to (14) of the principal Regulations, where he has been continuously entitled to and in receipt of housing benefit in respect of the same dwelling for a benefit period beginning before 6th October 1997, which included an addition by virtue of paragraph (4) or (5) of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations as they had effect on 5th October 1997 and for this purpose “benefit period” has the same meaning as in regulation 66 of the principal Regulations.\n(3) Regulation 3(3) of these Regulations shall not have effect in the case of a claimant to whom regulation 10 of the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (saving provision) applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1975",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced (by reg.4(2)(2A)(2B)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1975",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2231",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2231",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2231",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Welfare to Work) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1338",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/852/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:10.367578+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."
}