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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and, subject to paragraph (2), shall come into operation on 18th March 2011.\n(2) Regulations 2 and 3 come into operation on 1st April 2011.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 18.3.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/51/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:23:12.163494+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."
}