{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-and-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/174",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work and Severe Disablement Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-and-severe-disablement-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Saving",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) before the coming into operation of these Regulations, a person is entitled to severe disablement allowance by virtue of having satisfied regulation 10(1)(a), (b) or (f) of the Severe Disablement Allowance Regulations, as then in operation; and\n(b) after the coming into operation of these Regulations, he is a person in respect of whom any day is to be treated as part of one period of incapacity for work, within the meaning of section 30C(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, which began before the coming into operation of these Regulations,\nregulation 10 of the Severe Disablement Allowance Regulations shall continue to have effect as if regulation 2 had not been made.\n(2) In this regulation “the Severe Disablement Allowance Regulations” means the Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 30C was inserted by Article 5(1) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/174/regulation/4",
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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."
}