{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-regulations-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-regulations-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2205",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-recovery-of-benefits-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 6th October 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act\" means the Social Security Administration Act 1992;\n“the 1997 Act\" means the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997;\n“commencement day\" means the day these Regulations come into force;\n“compensator\" means a person making a compensation payment;\n“Compensation Recovery Unit” means the Compensation Recovery Unit, part of the Department for Work and Pensions, at Wear View House, 1 Eden Street West, Sunderland, SR1 3EY.\n(3) A reference in these Regulations to a numbered section or Schedule is a reference, unless the context otherwise requires, to that section of or Schedule to the 1997 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (29.6.2023) by The Social Security and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/543), regs. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2205/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:44:13.769283+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."
}