{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which persons are to be treated as being members of the same household",
  "text": "Persons shall be treated as members of the same household for the purposes of section 74A of the Act if they are treated as members of the same household under ... regulation 16 of the Income Support Regulations or regulation 78 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations or regulation 156 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 5 omitted (27.10.2008) by virtue of Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 59(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 inserted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 59(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/663,1989/534, 1990/547, 1992/468 and 3147, and 1993/2119."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/940/regulation/5",
    "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."
}