{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/128",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "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) 2002 and shall come into operation on 8th April 2002.\n(2) In these Regulations—\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(3) 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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 8.4.2002, 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. 1994 No. 327, S.R. 1995 Nos. 86 and 410, S.R. 1997 No. 22, S.R. 1998 No. 326 and S.R. 2001 No. 78"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1998 No. 326 and S.R. 2001 No. 78"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/128/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:08:02.034550+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."
}