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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Period for, or in respect of which, discretionary housing payments may be made",
  "text": "The Housing Executive may restrict the period for or in respect of which discretionary housing payments may be made to such period as it considers appropriate in a particular class of case or the particular circumstances of a case.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 2.7.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/216",
      "affecting_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/111",
      "affecting_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/143",
      "affecting_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/216/regulation/5",
    "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."
}