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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/4",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "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 Regulations 2000 and shall come into force–\n(a) for the purposes of this regulation and regulations 2 to 4 and 11 on 3rd February 2000;\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 5–\n(i) in any case where rent is payable at intervals of a whole number of weeks, on 3rd April 2000; and\n(ii) in any other case, on 1st April 2000;\n(c) for the purposes of regulation 6 to 10 on 3rd April 2000; and\n(d) for the purposes of regulation 12 on 1st April 2000.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987;\n“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1814."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/4/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:04.381660+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."
}