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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-no-11-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-8",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/472",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 11 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-no-11-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) the definition of “adjudication officer” shall be omitted.\n(3) In regulation 95(4A) (withholding of benefit) for “an adjudication officer” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted “the Department”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in operation at 29.11.1999 for specified purposes, see art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 Nos. 89 and 129 and S.R. 1996 No. 334"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “adjudication officer” was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 1995 No. 129"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (4A) was inserted by regulation 9(a) of S.R. 1995 No. 89 and amended by regulation 17 of S.R. 1996 No. 334"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/472/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:17:23.147854+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."
}