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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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Administration Act” means the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“the Department” means the Department for Social Development;\n“the Jobseekers Order” means the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations;\n“regulations” means regulations made by the Department;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning given by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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