1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force as follows–
(a)regulation 1 and, subject to paragraph (2), regulation 5, on 27th December 1991;
(b)regulation 2, and regulation 4 only insofar 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;
(c)regulation 4 insofar as it relates to any other case, on 6th April 1992;
(d)regulation 3, on 7th April 1992.
(2) Regulation 5 of these Regulations shall come into force in relation to any particular claimant at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after the date specified in paragraph (1)(a) which applies in his case; and for this purpose the expressions “claimant” and “benefit week” have the same meanings as in the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(1).
(3) In these Regulations–
“the Community Charge Benefits Regulations” means the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989(2); “the Family Credit Regulations” means the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987(3);
“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(4). Amendment of the Community Charge Benefits Regulations