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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2487",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-schemes-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Contributions and Benefits Act” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Family Credit Regulations and the Disability Working Allowance Regulations respectively;\n“the Disability Working Allowance Regulations” means the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991;\n“the Family Credit Regulations” means the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987;\n“regulation” in regulations 3 to 13 means a regulation of the Family Credit Regulations, and in regulations 14 to 25 means a regulation of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations, and any reference in those numbered regulations to a paragraph of a Schedule, or a Schedule, is a reference to the paragraph in that Schedule, or that Schedule, of those Regulations respectively;\n“tax credit” means working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit, within the meanings of section 1(1) of the Tax Credits Act 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2887."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1973."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2487/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:56:51.038297+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."
}