{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/47",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 12th April 2004.\n(2) In these Regulations –\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“the State Pension Credit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (20.11.2006) by The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/407), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 6(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 93, S.R. 1999 No. 298, S.R. 2003 Nos. 1 and 196 and S.R. 2003 No. 338"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 197; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2003 No. 418"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/47/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:14.690820+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."
}