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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/330",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-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. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation as follows—\n(a) regulation 1 on 1st August 1997;\n(b) regulation 2(a) and (e)—\n(i) in a case where a student’s period of study begins on or after 1st August 1997 but before 1st September 1997, on the first day of that period;\n(ii) in any other case, on 1st September 1997,\nso, however, that regulation 2(a) and (e) shall have effect in relation to any particular claimant at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after the day mentioned in head (i) or the date on or after the day mentioned in head (ii), whichever applies in his case; and for this purpose the expression “benefit week” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations or, as the case may be, in regulation 1(2) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations;\n(c) regulations 2(b) and 3—\n(i) in a case where a student’s period of study begins on or after 1st August 1997 but before 1st September 1997, on the first Monday of that period;\n(ii) in any other case, on 1st September 1997;\n(d) regulation 2(c) and (d)—\n(i) in a case where a student’s period of study begins on or after 1st August 1997 but before 1st September 1997, on the first Tuesday of that period;\n(ii) in any other case, on 2nd September 1997, and\n(e) regulation 4 on 2nd September 1997.\n(3) 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(4) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(3) 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 1.8.1997, see reg. 1(1)(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. 1988 No. 318 and S.R. 1996 Nos. 291 and 405"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 Nos. 358 and 503"
    },
    {
      "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/1997/330/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:04.481022+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."
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