{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-subsidy-order-1987/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-subsidy-order-1987/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1805",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefits (Subsidy) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefits-subsidy-order-1987",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order, which may be cited as the Housing Benefits (Subsidy) Order 1987, shall come into force on 16th November 1987.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982;\n“scheme” means either a statutory scheme in accordance with section 28 of the Act or a local scheme in accordance with section 30 thereof;\n“subsidy” means rate rebate subsidy, rent rebate subsidy or rent allowance subsidy under section 32 of the Act;\n“the Regulations” means the Housing Benefits Regulations 1985,\nand other expressions have the same meaning as in the Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/677, as amended by S.I. 1985/1100, 1244, 1445, 1986/84, 852, 1009, 1156 and 2183."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1805/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:16.688482+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."
}