{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1992/20",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-attendance-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1992",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 and shall come into operation on 6th April 1992.\n(2) In these regulations—\n“the Act” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975;\n“the Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;\n“the 1991 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n“terminally ill” has the same meaning as in section 35(2C) of the Act.\n(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations to—\n(a) a numbered section is a reference to the section of the Act bearing that number;\n(b) a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph or sub-paragraph is a reference to the paragraph or sub-paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 35(2C) was inserted by Article 3(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1511 (N.I. 15))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1089",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland Cross-border Consequential Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1089",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland Cross-border Consequential Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/195",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/355",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nia/2022/7",
      "affecting_title": "Social Security (Terminal Illness) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1992/20/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:58:54.283235+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."
}