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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-invalid-care-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1976/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1976/99",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-invalid-care-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1976",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “the Act” means the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 and other expressions have the same meanings as in the Act.\n(2) Any reference in these regulations to any provision made by or contained in any enactment or instrument shall, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that provision as amended or extended by any enactment or instrument and as including a reference to any provision which may re-enact or replace it, with or without modification.\n(3) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply in relation to this statutory rule and in relation to the revocation effected by it as if this statutory rule and the regulations revoked by it were Acts of Parliament and as if the revocation were a repeal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1889 c. 63."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/521",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1089",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland Cross-border Consequential Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/246",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Carer’s Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1218",
      "affecting_title": "The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1976/99/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:26:29.085140+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."
}