# The Supplementary Benefit (Transitional) Regulations 1980, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation


(1) These regulations may be cited as the Supplementary Benefit (Transitional) Regulations 1980 and shall come into operation on 11th August 1980.
(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 1976 Act” means the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976;
“the 1980 Act” means the Social Security Act 1980;
“the 1976 Act as amended by the 1980 Act” means the 1976 Act as it will be amended after the coming into force of section 6(1), (2) and (3) of and Schedule 2 to the 1980 Act;
“benefit week” has the meaning assigned to it in regulations made pursuant to section 2(2) of the 1976 Act and section 14(2)(f) of the 1976 Act as amended by the 1980 Act (days on which entitlement to supplementary pension or allowance is to begin or end or the amount thereof is to change);
“book of serial orders” means a book containing a series of orders for the payment of sums on account of benefit;
“calendar week” means a period of seven days beginning with the midnight between a Sunday and a Monday;
“claimant” means a claimant to supplementary benefit;
“Commission” means the Supplementary Benefits Commission.
(3) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/984/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/supplementary-benefit-transitional-regulations-1980/regulation-1
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