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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/130",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-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) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation—\n(a) for the purposes of this regulation and of regulations 2 and 6, on 21st March 1997;\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 8, on 6th April 1997, and\n(c) for all other purposes, on 7th April 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 21.3.1997, 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/1997/130/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:56.941982+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."
}