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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-benefit-welfare-supplementary-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2017/9780338006967",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Welfare Supplementary Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
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  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Recipient",
  "text": "The payments of welfare supplementary payment to which a person is entitled are to be made—\n(a) to the person’s landlord, or\n(b) if the payments of housing benefit to which the person is entitled are made direct to that person or to another person on his or her behalf by virtue of regulation 91(2) or (3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations, direct to that person or the other person, as the case may be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2017/9780338006967/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:35.492097+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."
}