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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-fuel-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/45",
  "legislation_title": "The Emergency Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-fuel-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Financial Assistance\nMade 7th March 2025\nComing into operation 18th March 2025\nThe First Minister and deputy First Minister, acting jointly, made on 17th December 2024 a determination under section 1(1) of the Financial Assistance Act (Northern Ireland) 2009; and, acting jointly, they have designated the Department for Communities as the relevant department under section 1(3)(a) of that Act.\nAccordingly, the Department for Communities, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(2), 3 and 4 of that Act.\nIn accordance with section 1(4) of that Act, the Executive Office approves the making of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 c. 2 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Department for Social Development was renamed the Department for Communities in accordance with section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Formerly the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister; see section 1(1) and (11) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.))"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/45/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:34.205095+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."
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