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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/119",
  "legislation_title": "The Carers and Direct Payments (2002 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed days",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) 19th April 2004 is the day appointed for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the Act:\n(a) Section 8 (Direct payments);\n(b) Section 9 (Direct payments in respect of children);\n(c) The Schedule\n(2) 16th March 2004 is the appointed day for the purposes only of making regulations under sections 8 and 9 of the Act.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/119/article/2",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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