{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1408",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation 4th November 1982.\n(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;\n...\n“the Child Benefit Act” means the Child Benefit Act 1975;\n“child benefit” means benefit under Part I of the Child Benefit Act;\n“determining authority” means, as the case may require, the Secretary of State, the First-tier Tribunal or the Upper Tribunal;\n“entitled to child benefit” includes treated as so entitled;\n“industrial injuries benefit” means ... disablement benefit and industrial death benefit payable under section 50 of the Act;\n“parent” has the meaning assigned to it by section 24(3) of the Child Benefit Act;\n“shared additional pension” means a shared additional pension under section 55A or 55AA of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“standard rate of increase” means the amount specified in Part IV or Part V of Schedule 4 to the Act as the amount of an increase of the benefit in question for an adult dependant;\n“the Workmen's Compensation Act” means the Workmen's Compensation Acts 1925 to 1945, or the enactments repealed by the Workmen's Compensation Act 1925 or the enactments repealed by the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906;\nand other expressions have the same meanings as in the Act.\n(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations—\n(a) to a numbered section is to the section of the Act bearing that number;\n(b) to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1-3 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/422), arts. 1(2), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (25.11.1999) by The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 12 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3178), reg. 3(1)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 (with reg. 3(1)(b), Schs. 21-23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (6.4.1983) by virtue of The Social Security (Abolition of Injury Benefit) (Consequential) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/186), regs. 1(1), 13(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (6.7.2005) by The Social Security (Shared Additional Pension) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1551), regs. 1(1)(a), 7(2) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1985), arts. 1(2)(b), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 24(3)(c) was repealed by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 4, Part I."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1408/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:13:46.544892+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."
}