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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1987/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Only one increase under paragraph 7 shall be applicable in respect of the claimant or any member of his family and the amount payable by virtue of that paragraph in respect of a claimant and his partner shall not exceed £35·00 and, if the claimant or any of his family who are in board and lodging accommodation or in a hostel is in receipt of an attendance allowance the increase shall only be payable to the extent that the excess of the actual charge for board and lodging accommodation or the hostel over the maximum amount is more than the amount of the attendance allowance in payment but only up to the amount specified for the time being as the higher rate of attendance allowance for the purposes of section 35(3) of the principal Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 35(3) was amended by Article 3(4) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.l. 1979/396 (N.l. 5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "sums confirmed",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/155",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1987/459/schedule/5/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:18:43.914608+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."
}