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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2021/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2021/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2021/267",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 22nd September 2021\nComing into operation 18th October 2021\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1)(j) and 165(1), (4) and (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and now vested in it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.8. Section 165(1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and section 18(5) of the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c.7.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(7) of the Department’s Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/267/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:37:22.983484+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."
}