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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2572",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 and “regulation” means a regulation of the principal Regulations;\n“the Schedule” means the Schedule to these Regulations;\n“tax credit” means working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit, construing those terms in accordance with section 1(1) of the Tax Credits Act 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1968."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2572/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:44.417721+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."
}