{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 66 of the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 66 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (benefit period)–\n(a) in paragraph (3) for the words “or (4)” there shall be substituted the words “(4) or (5)”;\n(b) at the end there shall be added the following paragraph–\n“(5) Where the appropriate authority has obtained a determination by the rent officer following notification by a claimant of a change of circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1A (excluded tenancies), that authority shall extend that claimant’s current benefit period by a further period of not more than 60 benefit weeks.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/4/regulation/8",
    "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."
}