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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/127",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (S.R. 1987 No. 465), (“the Claims and Payments Regulations”).\nRegulations 2(2), 2(4) and 2(5) amend regulations 4(11), 4ZC and paragraph 2 of Schedule 8D to the Claims and Payment Regulations to list the specified benefits in alphabetical order. These are stylistic changes only and do not change the intention or purpose of the stated regulations.\nRegulation 2(3) amends the Claims and Payment Regulations to allow a claim to industrial injuries benefit to be made via telephone.\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for these Regulations as no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/127/note",
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  "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."
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