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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996/article-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/682",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Transitional Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-financial-provisions-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Housing benefit finance and council tax benefit subsidy",
  "text": "In relation to any housing benefit, council tax benefit or community charge benefit granted or allowed by a regional or district council before the transfer date, for the purposes of—\n(a) the payment of subsidy under section 135 or 140 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992;\n(b) any claims or other matters associated with such subsidy under sections 137 and 140(7) of that Act; and\n(c) any regulations or order made under those sections,\nthat council’s accounting authority shall be deemed to be the authority referred to in those sections or in any regulations or order made thereunder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5; section 140 was amended by the 1992 Act, Schedule 9, paragraph 21, and by the 1994 Act, Schedule 13, paragraph 175(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/682/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:49.493086+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."
}