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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/56",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-information-sharing-in-relation-to-welfare-services-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Prescribed purposes relating to a relevant social security benefit",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person for any purpose listed in regulation 15.\n(2) The purposes prescribed under Article 121(2) of the 2015 Order as purposes for which the Department or a person providing services to the Department are purposes connected with the administration of universal credit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/56/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:58:24.366282+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."
}