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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-5-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/448",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—\n(a) in paragraph 54 at the end there shall be added—\n“including any amount of council tax benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 4D of the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (entitlement of a refugee to council tax benefit)”;\n(b) after paragraph 61 there shall be added the following paragraphs—\n“62 Any amount of housing benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 7B (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit).\n63 Any amount of income support to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 21A of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (treatment of refugees).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 54 was added by regulation 12(e) of S.R. 1993 No. 145"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1814; regulation 4D was inserted by regulation 3 of S.I. 1996/2432"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 61 was substituted by regulation 4 of S.R. 1996 No. 93"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459; regulation 21A was inserted by regulation 2(3) of S.R. 1996 No. 449"
    }
  ],
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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."
}