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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Rates or amounts of certain benefits under the Contributions and Benefits Act",
  "text": "(1) The sums specified in paragraph (2) shall be increased from and including the respective dates specified in Article 6 so as to have effect as set out in Schedule 1.\n(2) The sums mentioned in paragraph (1) are the sums specified in Parts I, III, IV and V of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (contributory periodical benefits, non-contributory periodical benefits, increases for dependants and rate of industrial injuries benefit, respectively), except in Part III the sum specified for age addition to a pension of any category, and otherwise under section 79 of that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/113",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/113/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:30:09.225358+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."
}