Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1998.

Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations shall come into force on 25th January 1999.

Where a claimant is in receipt of an award of housing benefit on 25th January 1999, these Regulations shall come into force in respect of that individual on the day after the last day of the benefit period in respect of which that award is made.

In these Regulations–

• “the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987^f1; and

• “benefit period” has the meaning given to it in regulation 66 of the Housing Benefit Regulations.