{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1971",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 66 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 66 of the General Regulations (benefit period)—\n(a) in paragraph (3) for the words “paragraph (4)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (3A) or (4)”;\n(b) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(3A) Where, in Scotland, an award is made in consequence of a claim made in the period from 5th December 1988 to 31st March 1989 the benefit period shall not exceed 80 benefit weeks.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1971/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:05.538433+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."
}