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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/240",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 6th June 2016\nLaid before Parliament 13th June 2016\nComing into operation in accordance with regulation 1(1)\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 2(2), 11(6), 74(3) and (5) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, and sections 12(2), (3) and (4), 13(2), (4) and (6), 16, 16A and 25(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.\nThese powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 4(1)(b) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10). Article 2(2) is cited for the meaning it gives to ‘prescribe’"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 16A was inserted by Article 62 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.)"
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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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