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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/230",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 and come into operation on 20th June 2016.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/230/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:15.008717+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."
}