{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/965",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation), after the definition of “year of assessment”, there shall be inserted a new definition—\n““young individual” means a single claimant who has not attained the age of 25 years, but does not include such a claimant—\n(a) whose landlord is a registered housing association; or\n(b) who has ceased to be the subject of a care order pursuant to section 31(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989, which had previously been made in respect to him either—\n(i) after he attained the age of 16 years; or\n(ii) before he attained the age of 16 years, but had continued after he attained that age,\nand who has not attained the age of 22 years; and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/965/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:17.043044+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."
}