{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/140",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 16th May 2014\nComing into operation 18th May 2014\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 39(1) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, sections 35(3), 35B(11) and 171(1), (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992,and now vested in it, and section 25(2) of, and paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 2 to, the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991/2628 (N.I. 23); Part 1 of Schedule 1 was substituted by section 1(3) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4) (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 7; section 35(3)(a) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)) and section 35B(11) was inserted by regulation 2(5) of S.R. 2014 No. 102. Section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/140/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:06:53.433025+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."
}