Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 15 in so far as it relates to paragraph 4 of the Schedule on 29th March 1993;

(b) for the purposes of regulation 15 in so far as it relates to paragraph 5 of the Schedule on 1st April 1993;

(c) for all other purposes—

(i) in any case where rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple thereof, on 1st April 1993;

(ii) in any other case, on 5th April 1993.

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

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/1971, 1989/416, 1990/127, 546, 1773 and 1775, 1991/235, 387, 1175, 1599 and 2695 and 1992/50, 432, 1101 and 2148.