{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2239",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Amendment (Bereavement Benefits) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations shall be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Bereavement Benefits) Regulations 2000 and shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, come into force on 9th April 2001.\n(2) Regulation 2(4) of these Regulations shall, in relation to any particular claimant for income support, have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 9th April 2001 and in this paragraph, the expressions “benefit week\" and “claimant\" shall have the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations .\n(3) Regulation 3(3) of these Regulations shall, in relation to any particular claimant for a jobseeker’s allowance, have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 9th April 2001 and in this paragraph, the expression “benefit week\" shall have the same meaning as in regulation 1(3) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations .\n(4) In these Regulations—\n“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations\" means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 ;\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations\" means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 ;\n“the Income Support Regulations\" means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 ;\n“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations\" means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(4) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week\" was amended by S.I. 1988/1445."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week\" was amended by S.I. 1996/1517 and 2538."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1814."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1971."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2239/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:39:51.343569+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."
}