{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-discretionary-housing-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-discretionary-housing-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Discretionary Housing Payments Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-discretionary-housing-payments-amendment-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 (Discretionary Housing Payments Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 2nd July 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n...\n“the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.\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 2.7.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2001 No. 78"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 503 and S.R. 2001 No. 25"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/261/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:00.575927+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."
}