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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "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) 1998 and this regulation and regulation 3 shall come into operation on 1st June 1998.\n(2) Regulation 2 shall come into operation on 1st June 1998 but in the case of a claimant for income support whose benefit week does not commence on that date, it shall have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant after that date.\n(3) In paragraph (2), “benefit week” and “claimant” shall have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.\n(4) Regulation 4 shall come into operation on 2nd June 1998 but in the case of a claimant for family credit or disability working allowance who has an award of either of these benefits which is current on 2nd June 1998, it shall have effect as from the day following the expiration of that award.\n(5) Regulation 5 shall come into operation on 1st June 1998 but in the case of a claimant for a jobseeker’s allowance whose benefit week does not commence on that date, it shall have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant after that date.\n(6) In paragraph (5), “benefit week” shall have the same meaning as in regulation 1(2) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.\n(7) 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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 1.6.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459; the definition of “benefit week” was amended by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 1988 No. 318"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; 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": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/176/regulation/1",
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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."
}