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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-benefit-cap-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2016/9780338006387",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Benefit Cap) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-benefit-cap-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before the Assembly under Article 137(5) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015, for approval\nWelfare\nMade 00th October 2016\nComing into operation- 7th November 2016\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 137 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.\nIn accordance with Article 137(5) of that Order, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2016/9780338006387/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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