{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/181",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) after the definition of “year of assessment” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““young individual” means a single claimant who has not attained the age of 25 years, but does not include such a claimant—\n(a) whose landlord is a registered housing association, or\n(b) who has ceased to be the subject of a training school order or a fit person order pursuant to section 95(1)(a) or (b) of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, which had previously been made in respect to him either—\n(i) after he attained the age of 16 years, or\n(ii) before he attained the age of 16 years, but had continued after he attained that age,\nand who has not attained the age of 22 years;”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 34 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/181",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/181/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:16.484697+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."
}