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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/195",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 3rd October 2019\nLaid before Parliament 8th October 2019\nComing into operation 31st October 2019\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(a) and (d), 132(3) and (4)(b), 132A(3), 133(1) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, Articles 2(2), 14(1) and (4)(b) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, sections 15(3) and (6)(b), 17(1) and 19(1) and (3) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002, section 17(1) and (3)(b) and 24(1) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 and Article 48(1) and (2)(a), paragraph 4(1) and (3)(a) of Schedule 1 and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 6 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.\nThese powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 4(1) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 7; section 132A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (NI) 2002 (c.14), section 133(1) is cited for the definition of “prescribed” and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); Article 2(2) is cited for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2002 c. 14 (N.I.); section 17(1) is cited for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.); section 24(1) is cited for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Article 4 was amended by Article 4 of the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/999 (N.I. 1). Functions under or for the purposes of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 are vested in the Department for Communities by virtue of Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/195/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."
}