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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1995/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1995/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2868",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1995",
  "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.2) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 2nd January 1996, immediately after the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 come into force.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations”means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of the regulation in those Regulations bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1644."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971; relevant amendments are S.I. 1988/1444, 1990/546, 1991/235, 1993/317, 1994/578, 1003, 1995/560 and 1644."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2868/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:53.644323+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."
}