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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
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  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a claimant’s family includes at least one child or young person, £15 of any payment of maintenance, other than child maintenance, whether under a court order or not, which is made or due to be made by the claimant’s former partner, or the claimant’s partner’s former partner.\n(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1) where more than one maintenance payment falls to be taken into account in any week, all such payments shall be aggregated and treated as if they were a single payment.\n(3) A payment made by the Department in lieu of maintenance shall, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), be treated as a payment of maintenance made by a person specified in sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 paras. 49, 49A substituted for Sch. 6 para. 49 (27.10.2008) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/179), regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 49(1) substituted (5.9.2016) by The Housing Benefit (Abolition of the Family Premium and date of claim) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/310), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(e) (with reg. 5)"
    }
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