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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015/article-133",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111141236",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015",
  "path": "article/133",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "133",
  "heading": "Reduced fee for dog licences",
  "text": "(1) The Dogs (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 7 (fees for dog licences)—\n(a) for paragraph (3)(b) substitute—\n“(b) a licence issued to a person who at the time of the application for the licence is—\n(i) in receipt of an income-related benefit, or\n(ii) a member of a couple in receipt of an income-related benefit;”.\n(b) after paragraph (9), insert—\n“(10) In this Article “income-related benefit” means—\n(a) universal credit under the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;\n(b) state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002;\n(c) income support under section 123 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n(d) housing benefit under section 129 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n(e) income-based jobseekers allowance under the Jobseeker’s (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n(f) income-related employment and support allowance under the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007;\n(g) working tax credit under the Tax Credits Act 2002.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111141236/article/133",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:58.125999+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."
}