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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-for-widows-and-widowers-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/108",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Benefits for Widows and Widowers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-for-widows-and-widowers-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 13th March 2001\nComing into operation 9th April 2001\nThe Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 73(3) and (4)(a) and 75(5)(a) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and now vested in it, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/108/introduction",
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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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