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  "legislation": "nia/2014/5",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 8 (direct payments)—\n(a) in subsection (2)(a) for “personal social service” substitute “ social care service ”; and\n(b) after subsection (7) insert—\n“(8) In this section “social care service” means a service designed to secure any of the objects of section 2(1)(b) of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009.”.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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