{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefitgeneral-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefitgeneral-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/920",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit(General) Amendment Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefitgeneral-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "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 1999 and shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of this regulation on 12th April 1999;\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 2—\n(i) in the case of an authority specified in the Schedule to these Regulations on 12th April 1999;\n(ii) in any other case on 6th September 1999, and\n(c) for the purposes of regulations 3 to 6 on 4th October 1999.\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/1999/920/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:42.511176+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."
}