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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/461",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation –\n(a) except for the purposes of regulation 5(a), on 28th November 2004, and\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 5(a), on 28th November 2005.\n(2) 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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 28.11.2004, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/461/regulation/1",
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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."
}