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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-17",
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  "legislation": "nia/2001/17",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-fraud-act-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) Sections 1 to 16 shall come into operation on such day or days as may be appointed by order made by the Department.\n(2) The power under this section to appoint a day for the coming into operation of sections 1 and 2 shall not authorise the appointment for those purposes of any day before the issue of the code of practice that must be issued under section 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "partly exercised by SR 2001/416; 2002/75, 165, 392, 406"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2001/17/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:42.996295+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."
}