{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-budgeting-loans-electronic-communications-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2023/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-budgeting-loans-electronic-communications-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2023/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2023/96",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Budgeting Loans) (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-budgeting-loans-electronic-communications-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 12th June 2023\nComing into operation 31st July 2023\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 2 of the Electronic Communications Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.\nIn accordance with section 1(3) of that Act it considers that the authorisation of the use of electronic communications by this Order for any purpose is such that the extent (if any) to which records of things done for that purpose will be available will be no less satisfactory in cases where use is made of electronic communications than in other cases.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 c.9 (N.I.). The terms used in section 1(1) and (2) are defined in section 4(1), other than “appropriate department” which has the meaning in section 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2023/96/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:31:31.309269+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."
}