{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-regulations-2026/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2026 and come into force on 6th April 2026.\n(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland, subject as follows.\n(3) Regulation 2 (insofar as it applies to a benefit which is devolved under Part 3 of the Scotland Act 2016) and regulation 4 extend to England and Wales only.\n(4) The revocation under regulation 6 has the same extent as the provisions that are revoked.\n(5) In these Regulations, “the Up-rating Order” means the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2016 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2026/148."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/218/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:06.716194+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."
}