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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of “forecast” after “on a daily basis” there shall be inserted “from and including 1st November in any year up to 31st March in the following year,”;\n(b) after the definition of “home” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““an income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 by virtue of Article 3(4) of that Order;”, and\n(c) for the definition of “station” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““station” means a station accredited by the Meteorological Office at which a period of cold weather may be forecasted or recorded for the purposes of these Regulations;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/488/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}