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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2401",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971) (the “Housing Benefit Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 inserts a new regulation into the Housing Benefit Regulations to exempt hostel dwellers from the requirements in respect of national insurance numbers imposed by section 1 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.\nRegulation 4 omits the definition of “hostel” from regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations (requirement to refer to rent officers) and inserts it into regulation 2 (interpretation).\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on businesses.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2401/note",
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  "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."
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