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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-allowance-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-allowance-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/149",
  "legislation_title": "The Maternity Allowance (Curtailment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-allowance-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 11th March 2015\nComing into operation 15th March 2015\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 35(3A), (3B), (3C) and (3D) and 171(1), (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and now vested in it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 7; section 35(3A) to (3D) was inserted by section 6(1) and (2) of the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 6) (“the 2015 Act”) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/149/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:36.546118+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."
}