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1.—(1) These Regulations, which may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Regulations 1997, shall come into force on 3rd November 1997, immediately following the coming into force of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1997(1).
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a)“the Act” means the Social Security Administration Act 1992;
“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(2);
and other expressions used in these Regulations and in the Housing Benefit Regulations shall have the same meanings in these Regulations as in the Housing Benefit Regulations; and
(b)a reference to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.
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