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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-emergency-funds-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/205",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Emergency Funds) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-emergency-funds-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Housing; Rates; Social Security\nMade 27th September 2017\nComing into operation 27th September 2017\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(a) and (d), 129A(2), 132(3) and (4), 132A(3), 134(1)(a) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, Articles 14(1) and (4) and 36(2) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, and now vested in it, and sections 2(3)(b) and 15(6)(b) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002, and sections 17(1) and (3) and 25(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.\nRegulations 6 and 7 are made with the consent of the Department of Finance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 7; section 129A was inserted by section 30(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2 (N.I.)), section 132A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N. I.)); section 134(1) was substituted by Article 66(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15); Article 36(2)(a) was amended by paragraph 55 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2002 c. 14 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(4) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/205/introduction",
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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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