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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-civil-partnership-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Civil Partnership) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-civil-partnership-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1), (2) and (3) of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 (exceptions from disqualification for imprisonment etc.) for “wife or husband” there shall be substituted “spouse or civil partner”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 5.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1984 No. 92; regulation 2(2) was amended by regulation 11 of, and Schedule 2 to, S.R. 1984 No. 317, regulation 7(2)(a) of S.R. 1986 No. 340, regulation 7(3) of S.R 1992 No. 6, regulation 16 of S.R. 1995 No. 150, regulation 2(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 57, regulation 9(3) of S.R. 2001 No. 108 and regulation 6(3) of S.R. 2005 No. 299"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/539/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:49:31.031814+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."
}