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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 8th July 1996.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 8.7.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/221",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/221/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T03:31:51.772208+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."
}