{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/235",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 11 of the principal Regulations (restrictions on unreasonable payments) paragraph (2) shall be amended in the following respects—\n(a) for the words “Subject to paragraphs (3) to (4), where the appropriate authority considers” there shall be substituted the words “The appropriate authority shall consider”;\n(b) in sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) for the words “otherwise that” there shall be substituted the words “otherwise, whether”;\n(c) after sub-paragraph (c) for the words “the authority may” there shall be substituted the words “and, where it appears to the authority that the dwelling is larger than is reasonably required or that the rent is unreasonably high, the authority shall, subject to paragraphs (3) to (4),”;\n(d) the words “eligible rates or” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 11 was amended by S.I. 1989/566 and 1990/546."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/235/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:51:45.854744+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."
}