{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/416",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "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 Regulations 1989 and shall come into force as follows –\n(a) regulations 1 to 6 and 9 to 11 in any case to which paragraph (2)(a) or (b) applies, on 1st April 1989 and in any other case, on 3rd April 1989;\n(b) regulations 7 and 8, on 9th October 1989.\n(2) This paragraph applies in any case where –\n(a) rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or multiple thereof; or\n(b) payments by way of rates are not made together with payments of rent at weekly intervals or multiples thereof.\n(3) In these regulations “the General Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/1444 and 661, 909, 1971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/416/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:47:52.847476+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."
}