{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-lone-pensioner-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-lone-pensioner-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/124",
  "legislation_title": "The Rate Relief (Lone Pensioner Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-lone-pensioner-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“the 2003 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“applicant” means a person who has made an application under regulation 5 or on whose behalf such an application has been made;\n“dwelling-house” includes a hereditament which is used partly for the purposes of a private dwelling but only in so far as it is so used;\n“the Executive” means the Northern Ireland Housing Executive;\n“rebate” means a rebate under regulation 3(1);\n“registered medical practitioner” means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983; and\n“relevant authority” means an authority administering these Regulations.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations a person who has his only or principal residence in a dwelling-house shall be deemed to be occupying that dwelling-house.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.7"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/431 (N.I. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1983 c.54"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/124/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:37:08.228611+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."
}