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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-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit, Retirement Pensions and Other Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit, Retirement Pensions and Other Benefits) (Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 2(3) (interpretation) for “, a social security appeal tribunal or an adjudication officer” there shall be substituted “or an appeal tribunal constituted under Article 8 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998”.\n(3) In regulation 19 (provision relating to widow’s pension for certain widows incapable of self-support by reason of an infirmity) paragraph (2) shall be omitted.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in operation at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 244, to which there are amendments not relevant to this order. See also Article 3 of the Social Security Adjudications (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1524 (N.I. 17))"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/371/article/7",
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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."
}