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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-montserrat-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2006",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Montserrat) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-montserrat-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971), the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1814), and the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967).\nThey provide that claimants coming to Great Britain from Montserrat as a result of a volcanic eruption on the island are not to be treated as persons from abroad for the purposes of income support, housing benefit and council tax benefit.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on businesses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2006/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:41.305503+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."
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