{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/216",
  "legislation_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 2nd July 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act” means the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000;\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 2.7.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1988 Nos. 314 and 424, S.R. 1989 No. 125, S.R. 1991 Nos. 47 and 337, S.R. 1992 No. 444, S.R. 1993 No. 145, S.R. 1994 No. 137, S.R. 1996 Nos. 73, 111, 115, 181 and 221, S.R. 1997 Nos. 22 and 376, S.R. 1998 No. 114, S.R. 1999 No. 416, S.R. 2000 Nos. 38 and 74 and S.R. 2001 No. 79"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/143",
      "affecting_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/216",
      "affecting_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/310",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Abolition of the Family Premium and date of claim) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2016/432",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2018/92",
      "affecting_title": "The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/216/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:23.867300+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}