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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-consequential-provisions-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/412",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-consequential-provisions-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provisions consequential upon the introduction of employment and support allowance by inserting references to employment and support allowance where appropriate in—\nthe Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\nthe Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;\nthe Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981;\nthe Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981;\nthe Adoption Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\nthe National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999;\nthe Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000;\nthe Asylum Support Regulations 2000;\nthe Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) Regulations 2002;\nthe Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006;\nthe Healthy Start Scheme and Day Care Food Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006; and\nthe Gender Recognition (Application Fees) Order 2006.\nSections 25(2) and 28(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007, the enabling provisions under which these Regulations are made, were brought into operation for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations on 1st July 2008, and for all other purposes on 27th July 2008, by virtue of the Welfare Reform (2007 Act) (Commencement No. 5) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008 No. 276 (C. 14)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/412/note",
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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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