{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/465",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 21st November 2008\nComing into operation 15th December 2008\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2A(1), (3) to (6) and (8), 2B(6) and (7) and 165(4) to (6) and (7A) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and now vested in it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8; sections 2A and 2B were inserted by Article 54 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)), section 2A was amended by Article 2(2)(b)(i) of S.R. 2002 No. 321, section 2B was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 10 (N.I.)), section 165(6) was amended by paragraph 86 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and section 165(7A) was inserted by paragraph 58 of Schedule 9 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/465/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."
}