{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-social-security-act-1986-modifications-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-social-security-act-1986-modifications-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1483",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Social Security Act 1986 Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-social-security-act-1986-modifications-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Social Security Act 1986 Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 21st September 1988.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1986;\n“the 1987 Act” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Act 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 50; Parts II and VI and sections 83 and 85 of the Act were amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, Schedule 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1483/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:15.590374+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."
}