{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riot-compensation-regulations-2017/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riot-compensation-regulations-2017/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/371",
  "legislation_title": "The Riot Compensation Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riot-compensation-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) —These Regulations may be cited as the Riot Compensation Regulations 2017 and come into force on 6th April 2017.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Riot Compensation Act 2016;\n“Authority” means the appropriate local policing body or a person to whom it has delegated functions under regulation 8(1);\n“business premises” means premises used wholly or partly for the purposes of a business;\n“claimant”, except in regulation 2, means an ordinary claimant or insurer claimant;\n“first payment date” means the date or, if there is more than one such date, the first date on which compensation is paid in relation to a section 1 claim;\n“insurer claim” means a claim for compensation under section 1(2) of the Act;\n“insurer claimant” means an insurance company making an insurer claim;\n“ordinary claim” means a claim for compensation under section 1(1) of the Act;\n“ordinary claimant” means a person making an ordinary claim;\n“representative” means a person acting on behalf of an ordinary claimant;\n“residential premises” means premises normally used as one or more dwellings;\n“section 1 claim” means a claim for compensation under section 1(1) or (2) of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 6.4.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/371/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:06.089892+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."
}