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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/121",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) 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 Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006; and\n“the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008.\n(2) 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. 2 in operation at 1.4.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 146, S.R. 1993 No. 373, S.R. 1996 No. 199, S.R. 2002 No. 363, S.R. 2008 No. 112 and S.R. 2009 Nos. 92 and 338"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 405; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2009 No. 92 and S.R. 2010 No. 69"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 2008 No. 280; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2010 No. 346 and S.R. 2011 Nos. 357 and 434"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1954 c.33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/121/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:16:47.804297+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."
}