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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "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) 1997 and shall come into operation as follows—\n(a) for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 4(b) on 7th April 1997;\n(b) for the purposes of regulations 2, 3, 4(a) and 5 on 6th October 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the principal Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“young individual” has the meaning specified in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations.\n(3) 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": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 7.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1989 No. 125, S.R. 1991 No. 47, S.R. 1996 Nos. 111, 181, 334, 405 and 448"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Definition inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 1996 No. 181 and substituted by regulation 4(c) of S.R. 1996 No. 405"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}