{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-northern-ireland-1994/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1994/485",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit — Increases for Dependants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-northern-ireland-1994",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit — Increases for Dependants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 and shall come into operation as follows—\n(a) regulations 1 to 15(6)(a), (6)(b)(ii) and (c)(ii), (7) and (8) on 13th April 1995; and\n(b) regulation 15(6)(b)(i) and (c)(i) on 13th May 1995.\n(2) In these regulations—\n“the Administration Act” means the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northeern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“benefit week” means a period of seven days ending with the day on which the benefit is due to be paid;\n“entitled to child benefit” includes treated as so entitled;\n“parent” has the meaning that it bears for the purposes of Part IX of the Contributions and Benefits Act;\n“standard rate of increase” means the amount specified in column (3) of Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act which is appropriate in the case of the beneficiary.\n(3) In these regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—\n(a) a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation in these regulations which bears that number; and\n(b) a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph in that regulation which bears that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1994/485/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."
}