
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 7th April 1997.
2 
In regulation 51(2)(a) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (eligible rent of students), after the words “income support” there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Roger Evans
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
4th March 1997