Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2003.

(2)

These Regulations shall come into force—

(a)

for the purposes of regulation 5, on 30th March 2003; and

(b)

for all other purposes—

(i)

in relation to any case where rent is payable at intervals of a whole number of weeks, on 7th April 2003; and

(ii)

in relation to any other case, on 1st April 2003.

(3)

In these Regulations “the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987^f1.

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