{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-standard-interest-rate-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-standard-interest-rate-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1811",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Housing Costs) (Standard Interest Rate) Amendment Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-standard-interest-rate-amendment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Housing Costs) (Standard Interest Rate) Amendment Regulations 2010.\n(2) These Regulations come into force—\n(a) in any case where a relevant benefit is payable to a person in arrears in respect of a benefit week that includes 1st October 2010, on the first day of that benefit week;\n(b) in any case not falling within sub-paragraph (a) where a relevant benefit is payable to a person in respect of a benefit week that includes 1st October 2010, on the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that person on or after 1st October 2010;\n(c) in any other case, on 1st October 2010.\n(3) 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;\n“the State Pension Credit Regulations” means the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002;\n“the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008;\n“benefit week” has the same meaning as in—\n(a) regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the Income Support Regulations, in relation to income support;\n(b) regulation 1(3) (interpretation) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, in relation to a jobseeker’s allowance;\n(c) regulation 1(2) (interpretation) of the State Pension Credit Regulations, in relation to state pension credit;\n(d) regulation 2(1) (interpretation) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations, in relation to an employment and support allowance;\n“relevant benefit” means—\n(a) income support;\n(b) a jobseeker’s allowance;\n(c) state pension credit; or\n(d) an employment and support allowance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/1792."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/794."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "A relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1988/1445."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week” was substituted by S.I. 2009/604."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week” was substituted by S.I. 2009/3229."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1811/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:36.256223+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."
}