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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-coronavirus-prisoners-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/63",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-coronavirus-prisoners-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and come into operation on 8th April 2020.\n(1A) In these regulations “coronavirus disease” means COVID-19 (the official designation of the disease which can be caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)).\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 1(1A) inserted (12.5.2021) by The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/105), regs. 1(1), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1954 c.33 (N.I.)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/63/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:44:16.489864+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."
}