{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/546",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "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 1990 and shall come into force–\n(a) in any case to which paragraph (2) applies, on 1st April 1990, and\n(b) in any other case, on 2nd April 1990.\n(2) This paragraph applies in any case where rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple thereof.\n(3) In any case in which these Regulations and the Social Security Benefits Up-Rating Order 1990 come into force on the same day, these Regulations shall come into force immediately after that Order.\n(4) 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. 1990/320."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/546/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:40.365177+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."
}