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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-14",
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  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
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  "heading": "Persons of a prescribed description",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph(2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of Article 21(11) of the Order as it applies to income support (definition of the family) and Article 24(1) and (3) of the Order (trade disputes) is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is treated as a child for the purposes of Article 4 of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (meaning of child), and in these regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is entitled to income support or would, but for Article 21(9) of the Order (provision against dual entitlement of members of a family), be so entitled.",
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      "affecting": "nisr/2006/128",
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