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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1999/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1999/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2734",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-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 (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of this regulation and regulations 12 and 13, on 1st November 1999;\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 6, on 3rd April 2000; and\n(c) for the purposes of regulations 2 to 5 and 7 to 11,\n(i) in any case where rent is payable at intervals of a whole number of weeks, on 3rd April 2000; and\n(ii) in any other case, on 1st April 2000.\n(2) In these Regulations “the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2734/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:39.814726+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."
}