Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1988 and shall come into force as follows—

(a)

for the purposes of this regulation and regulations 5 and 6, 5th September 1988;

(b)

for the purposes of regulations 2, 4 and 8, 12th September 1988;

(c)

for the purposes of regulation 7 in any case to which paragraph (2)(a) or (b) of this regulation applies, 1st April 1989;

(d)

for the purposes of regulation 7 in any other case, 3rd April 1989; and

(e)

for the purposes of regulation 3, 10th April 1989.

(2)

This paragraph applies in any case where—

(a)

rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple thereof; or

(b)

payments by way of rates are not made together with payments of rent at weekly intervals or multiples thereof.

(3)

In these Regulations “the General Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987^f1.

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