{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-personal-allowances-for-children-and-young-persons-regulations-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-personal-allowances-for-children-and-young-persons-regulations-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2980",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Amendment (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-personal-allowances-for-children-and-young-persons-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) Regulations 2001 and shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, come into force on 22nd October 2001.\n(2) Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall, in relation to a claimant for income support, have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 22nd October 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 2 of these Regulations shall, in relation to a 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 22nd October 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 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": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week” was amended by S.I. 1988/1445."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week” was amended by S.I. 1996/1517 and 2538."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/2555 and 2001/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/2555 and 2001/207."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2980/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:29:24.652121+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."
}