{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/156",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation as follows—\n(a) for the purposes of regulations 1 to 3(2), (3)(c), (4)(a), (c) and (e), (5), (6) and (8), 4(1) to (3), (5) to (11) and 5 on 7th April 1997;\n(b) for the purpose of regulation 3(7)—\n(i) except as provided by head (ii), on 7th April 1997, and\n(ii) in so far as it relates to retirement pension or graduated retirement benefit on 4th August 1997;\n(c) for the purpose of regulation 4(4)—\n(i) except as provided by head (ii), on 7th April 1997, and\n(ii) in so far as it relates to retirement pension on 4th August 1997; and\n(d) for all other purposes on 6th October 1997.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 7.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/156/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:40.580782+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."
}