{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/175",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 14th May 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Order” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n“the Child Support Orders” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n...\n“relevant authority” means the Department, the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment or a person providing services to either of those Departments;\n“the Jobseekers Order” means the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) revoked (20.11.2006) by The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/407), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 6(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/2628 (N.I. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2702 (N.I. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/175/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:41.883549+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."
}