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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/520",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations provide for the way in which the earnings of a person to whom benefit is or may be payable, or the earnings of such a person’s dependant, are to be calculated or estimated for the purposes of those provisions of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and regulations made under that Act, by which the right to, or the amount of, benefit depends on the amount of those earnings.\nRegulations 3 to 14 make provision for earnings not expressly disregarded to be taken into account on a weekly basis; define earnings and prescribe the manner in which earnings are to be calculated; they also prescribe the circumstances in which a person is to be treated as possessing earnings which he in fact does not possess.\nRegulations 15 and 16 make transitional provision including for the suspension of benefit until the amount of the earnings is established and for the making of interim payments.\nRegulation 17 makes consequential amendments to the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977.\nRegulation 18 makes consequential revocations and includes a saving provision.\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Social Security in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/520/note",
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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."
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