# The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation

Extent: N.I.

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation as follows—
(a) for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 4(b) on 7th April 1997;
(b) for the purposes of regulations 2, 3, 4(a) and 5 on 6th October 1997.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the principal Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;
“young individual” has the meaning specified in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations.
(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/170/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1
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