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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/67",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "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 (“the Claims and Payments Regulations”) and the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (“the Decisions and Appeals Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends the Claims and Payments Regulations to—\nprovide that where a claimant’s partner or child is awarded a benefit which has the effect of making a benefit which the claimant receives payable or payable at an increased rate, the periods of entitlement to those benefits shall be the same in the circumstances specified;\nlink certain provisions to the award rather than the payability of a benefit; and\nprovide for an extension of the time for claiming income support and jobseeker’s allowance in specified circumstances.\nRegulation 3 amends the Decisions and Appeals Regulations—\nas to the power to revise or supersede a decision; and\nas regards the effective date of a superseding decision in specified circumstances.\nRegulation 4 makes a consequential revocation.\nThese Regulations correspond 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.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/67/note",
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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."
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