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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-no-8-and-savings-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/371",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 8 and Savings, Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-no-8-and-savings-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 1 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (2) for the definition of “the determining authority” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““the determining authority” means, as the case may require, the Department, an appeal tribunal to which there is a right of appeal pursuant to Article 13 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 or a Commissioner to whom an appeal lies under Article 15 of that Order;”; and\n(b) in paragraph (3) for “the Department or the determining authority whichever is appropriate” there shall be substituted “the determining authority”.\n(3) In regulation 4(2)(b)(i) (days to be treated as days of increment) for “the Department or the determining authority, whichever is appropriate,” there shall be substituted “the determining authority”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in operation at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 243; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1984 No. 174"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “the determining authority” was substituted by regulation 14 of S.R. 1984 No. 174"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/371/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:13.210939+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."
}