{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/638",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "In regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–\n“(4A) Where a person is required to reside in a dwelling which is a bail hostel or probation hostel approved by the Secretary of State under section 27 of the Probation Service Act 1993, he shall not be treated as occupying that dwelling as his home.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/1017, 1990/546 and 1549, 1991/235, 1992/3147, 1993/317, 1995/560, 625 and 2303, 1997/2197 and 1998/563."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/638/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:53.250365+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."
}