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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2016/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/92",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefits-up-rating-order-northern-ireland-2016",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "This Order may be cited as the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation for the purposes of—\n(a) this Article, Articles 2 and 3(c) and the Schedule so far as it relates to Part V of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act, on 6th April 2016;\n(b) Articles 3(a) and (b), 4 and 5, and the remaining parts of the Schedule, on 11th April 2016; and\n(c) Article 6, in so far as it relates to a particular beneficiary, on the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that beneficiary on or after 11th April 2016, and for the purpose of this sub-paragraph “benefit week” has the same meaning as in the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 28; relevant amending Rule is S.R. 2009 No. 409"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/92/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:57:58.982650+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."
}