{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2904",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "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 2005 and shall come into force on 10th April 2006.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992;\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1814; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/2331 and 2001/1605."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2000/2331, 2001/1190 and 2001/1605."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/217",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2904/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:31.940712+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."
}