{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-charges-for-accommodation-regulations-1988/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-charges-for-accommodation-regulations-1988/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/234",
  "legislation_title": "The National Assistance (Charges for Accommodation) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-assistance-charges-for-accommodation-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Assistance (Charges for Accommodation) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the National Assistance Act 1948;\n“Personal Injuries Scheme”,“Service Pensions Instrument” and“1914—18 War Injuries Scheme” have the same meanings as in the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/597; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1980/1927."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/234/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:56.986010+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."
}