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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/143",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "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) 2004.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into operation for the purposes of –\n(a) regulations 1 to 5, on 1st April 2004;\n(b) regulation 6, on 5th April 2004;\n(c) regulation 8, on 6th April 2004;\n(d) regulation 7, on 12th April 2004; and\n(e) regulation 9, in so far as it relates to a claimant for income support or, as the case may be, a jobseeker’s allowance, on the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 12th April 2004.\n(3) In paragraph (2)(e) “benefit week” has the same meaning as in –\n(a) regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations, in so far as that paragraph relates to a claimant for income support; and\n(b) regulation 1(2) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, in so far as that paragraph relates to a claimant for a jobseeker’s allowance.\n(4) In these Regulations –\n...\n“the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.\n(5) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(4) revoked (20.11.2006) by The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/407), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 6(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.2004, see reg. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week” was amended by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 1988 No. 318"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “benefit week” was amended by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 1996 No. 358 and regulation 2(2)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 503"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1990 No. 387, S.R. 1992 No. 147, S.R. 1993 No. 373, S.R. 1997 No. 541, S.R. 1998 No. 326, S.R. 1999 No. 381, S.R. 2001 Nos. 105, 134 and 151, S.R. 2002 No. 275 and S.R. 2003 Nos. 195, 367 and 417"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Rules are S.R. 1997 No. 541, S.R. 1998 No. 326, S.R. 2000 No. 350, S.R. 2001 No. 151, S.R. 2002 Nos. 132 and 275 and S.R. 2003 Nos. 155 and 417"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/143/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:58:19.576115+00:00"
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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."
}