{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-act-1975/section-158",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-act-1975/section-158.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/15",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-act-1975",
  "path": "section/158",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "158",
  "heading": "Citation extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975.\n(2) Subject to subsection (2A) below,this Act extends to Northern Ireland only.\n(2A) Section 123(2) above extends to Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland.\n(3) Subject to section 3(5) of the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975, this Act comes into force on 6th April 1975.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 158 inserted (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(a)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 158(2A) inserted (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/15/section/158",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:40:31.069739+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."
}