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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/404",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2001.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994.\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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 6.4.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1994 No. 461; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 483, S.R. 1999 No. 346 and S.R. 2000 No. 109"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/404/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:32.071946+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."
}