{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/940",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 19th April 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act\" means the Social Security Administration Act 1992;\n“the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008;\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 inserted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 59(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/940/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:28.902645+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."
}