{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1994/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1994",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“period overrun” means any period, in the relevant year —\n(i) which follows a benefit period in that year or the previous year; and\n(ii) in respect of which the authority makes a payment to a claimant after the expiration of the benefit period without making a further award under regulation 66 of the Housing Benefit Regulations, or regulation 57 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations, as the case may be;\n“benefit period” has the same meaning as in regulation 66 of the Housing Benefit Regulations, regulation 57 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations or regulation 54 of the Community Charge Benefit Regulations , as the case may be, save that where an appropriate authority makes an award under one of those regulations for a specified period of less than 60 benefit weeks, it means 60 benefit weeks commencing with the benefit week when that specified period began; and\n“overrun week” means any week forming part of a period overrun.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.1987/1967; the definition of “benefit week” was added by S.I. 1988/1445."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 189(8) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/523/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:39:59.543455+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."
}