The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force–

(a) for the purposes of this regulation and regulations 2 to 4 and 11 on 3rd February 2000;

(b) for the purposes of regulation 5–

(i) in any case where rent is payable at intervals of a whole number of weeks, on 3rd April 2000; and

(ii) in any other case, on 1st April 2000;

(c) for the purposes of regulation 6 to 10 on 3rd April 2000; and

(d) for the purposes of regulation 12 on 1st April 2000.

(2) In these Regulations–

“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(1);

“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992(2).

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971.

(2)

S.I. 1992/1814.