{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1986/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1986/1888",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1986",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.\n(2) This Order may be cited together with the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Acts 1975 to 1985 as the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Acts 1975 to 1986.\n(3) Subject to the following provisions of this Article, this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Head of the Department may by order appoint.\n(4) Article 53 (adjudication) (including Schedule 5) shall come into operation on such day or days as the Head of the Department with the consent of the Lord Chancellor may by order appoint.\n(5) Without prejudice to section 17(5) of the 1954 c. 33 (N.I.) Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, if different days are appointed under paragraph (3) for the purposes of Part IV in relation to different descriptions of persons, those descriptions of persons may be determined by any criteria that appear to the Head of the Department to be appropriate.\n(6) If an order under paragraph (3) brings paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 into operation on the same day as Article 37, the former shall be deemed to have come into operation immediately before the latter.\n(7) The following provisions of this Order shall come into operation on the fourteenth day after the day on which this Order is made—\nthis Article and Article 2;\nArticle 31(3) and (4) (housing benefit finance);\nArticle 38 (invalid care allowance for women);\nArticle 39(4) (abolition of maternity grant);\nArticle 46 (guardian's allowance—adoption);\nArticle 62 (consultations on subordinate legislation);\nArticle 64 (annual up-rating of benefits);\nArticle 65 (effect of alteration of rates of benefit);\nArticle 71 (child benefit in respect of children education otherwise than at educational establishments);\nArticle 72(4) and (5) (entitlement to mobility allowance—general);\nArticle 73 (entitlement of certain women to mobility allowance);\nArticle 75 (National Insurance contributions);\nArticle 77 (amendments relating to forfeiture of benefits);\nArticle 81 (orders and regulations (general provisions));\nArticle 82 (financial provision);\nArticle 83(1) (minor and consequential amendments) so far as it relates to paragraphs 13, 14(3), 17(1) and (2), 18, 24(b), (c) and (d)(ii) 64, 73 and 74 of Schedule 9;\nArticle 83(2) (repeals) so far as it relates to—\n(a)section 37(3) of the principal Act and the reference to paragraph (b) of that subsection in Article 18(2) of the 1977 NI 11 Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;\n(b)Article 53D(2) and (3) of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 1A to, the Pensions Order;\n(c)section 10 of the 1980 c. 30 Social Security Act 1980; and\n(d)Article 4 of the 1983 NI 14 Housing Benefits (Northern Ireland) Order 1983; and\nArticle 84 (transitional).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "partly exercised by SR 1986/339, 1987/20,21,121,161,184,299,449, 1988/116"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
}