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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-nos-8-and-10-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2006/article-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/402",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (1998 Order) (Commencement Nos. 8 and 10) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-1998-order-commencement-nos-8-and-10-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Consequential amendments",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 14(1) of the Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (reviews) after “appeal)” insert “and Articles 10 and 11 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (revision and supersession of decisions)”.\n(2) In the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995—\n(a) in regulation 11 (transitional awards of short-term incapacity benefit) after paragraph (5) add—\n“(6) The transitional award under paragraph (1) is treated as a decision of the Department under Article 9(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 and as an incapacity benefit decision for the purposes of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999.”; and\n(b) in regulation 17 (transitional awards of long-term incapacity benefit) after paragraph (4) add—\n“(5) The transitional award under paragraph (1) is treated as a decision of the Department under Article 9(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 and as an incapacity benefit decision for the purposes of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 16.10.2006, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1992 No. 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1995 No. 35; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 601"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (5) was added by regulation 3(2)(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 601"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 9 was amended by paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 and Schedule 9 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671), Schedule 13 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N.I.)) and Article 74(1) was amended by paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002. See also S.R. 2006 No. 388"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.R. 1999 No. 162"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/402/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:56.090734+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."
}