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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1440",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st September 1987.\n(2) In these Regulations “the Regulations” means the Housing Benefits Regulations 1985",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/677; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1986/1009, regulation 2(4)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1440/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:21:25.928962+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."
}