{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/363",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "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 2003.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of regulation 5, on 30th March 2003; and\n(b) for all other purposes—\n(i) in relation to any case where rent is payable at intervals of a whole number of weeks, on 7th April 2003; and\n(ii) in relation to any other case, on 1st April 2003.\n(3) In these Regulations “the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/363/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:56.493707+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."
}