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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-4-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. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st June 1998.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“the Family Credit Regulations” means the Family Credit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“the Disability Working Allowance Regulations” means the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992;\n“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.\n(3) 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 1.6.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 318, S.R. 1989 Nos. 139 and 395, S.R. 1990 Nos. 297 and 346, S.R. 1993 Nos. 120, 149 and 167, S.R. 1996 Nos. 288 and 405, S.R. 1997 No. 541 and S.R. 1998 No. 81"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1990 No. 345 and S.R. 1997 No. 541"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 463; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1990 No. 347 and S.R. 1997 No. 541"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 1992 No. 78; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 541"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 Nos. 288 and 356, S.R. 1997 No. 541 and S.R. 1998 No. 81"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/182/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:24:10.355086+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."
}