Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force as follows—

(a)regulation 1, and regulation 2 insofar only as it relates to any case where rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple of a week, on 1st April 1992;

(b)regulation 2, except in a case to which sub-paragraph (a) above relates, on 6th April 1992.

(2) In these Regulations “the Housing Benefit Regulations” shall mean the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(1).

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1988/1444 and 1971 and 1990/546.