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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-benefit-welfare-supplementary-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2017/9780338006967",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Welfare Supplementary Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-benefit-welfare-supplementary-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before the Assembly under Article 137A(9) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 for approval\nSocial Security\nMade 00th January 2017\nComing into operation 20th February 2017\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 137A of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.\nIn accordance with Article 137A(9) of that Order, a draft of these Regulations was laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.\nIn accordance with Article 137A(10) of that Order, the Department consulted the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, as a statutory body on which these Regulations impose functions, before making these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1). Article 137A was inserted by Article 19 of S.I. 2016/999 (N.I. 1). Under section 1(7) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Act 2016, the Department for Social Development, on which the enabling power for these Regulations was conferred, was renamed the Department for Communities."
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2017/9780338006967/introduction",
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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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