{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-etc-workers-compensation-specified-diseases-and-prescribed-occupations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2024/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-etc-workers-compensation-specified-diseases-and-prescribed-occupations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2024/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2024/46",
  "legislation_title": "The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases and Prescribed Occupations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-etc-workers-compensation-specified-diseases-and-prescribed-occupations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Order made by the Department for Communities and laid before the Assembly under Article 11(2) of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979, and subject to affirmative resolution procedure of the Assembly\nSocial Security\nMade 8th March 2024\nComing into operation in accordance with Article 1\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3(1) of, and paragraph 8(1) of the Schedule to, the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 and now vested in it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/925 (N.I. 9); Article 3(1) was amended by Article 22(a) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/1209 (N.I. 16)) and the Schedule was inserted by section 52(5) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 4(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481, the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 15 (N.I.)), Article 3 of S.R. 2006 No. 192 and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/46/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:29:22.244038+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."
}