{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/371",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Housing; Rates\nMade 8th September 2008\nComing into operation 1st October 2008\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1)(a) and (h), 107 and 165(1) and (4) to (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and now vested in it.\nThe Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8; section 107 was substituted by Article 56 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.R. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)) and in section 165 subsection (1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and subsection (6) was amended by Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/371/introduction",
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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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