{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-benefit-schemes-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/2003/3202",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Benefit Schemes (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-benefit-schemes-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Benefit Schemes (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.\n(2) This Article and Article 2 shall come into operation on the expiration of one month from the day on which this Order is made.\n(3) Article 3 shall come into operation on such day as the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety may by order appoint.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "Art. 1(3) power fully exercised: 27.11.2006 appointed by {S.R. 2006/418}, art. 2 (as amended by {S.R. 2006/437}, art. 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/3202/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:09.332629+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."
}