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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/202",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-maintenance-payments-and-consequential-amendments-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 that where the Department of Health and Social Services (“the Department”) is collecting maintenance payments on behalf of a person who is claiming certain social security benefits, the Department may disregard those maintenance payments for the purposes of calculating the claimant’s benefit entitlement, and may then retain any such maintenance payments collected by it.\nThese Regulations provide definitions of certain terms for the purposes of section 72A of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8) and make consequential amendments to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.\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",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/202/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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