{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1988/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1988",
  "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 1988.\n(2) Articles 3 to 12 (including Schedules 1 to 3), and this Article, Article 2 and Articles 15 to 17 (including Schedules 4 and 5) so far as they have effect for the purposes of Articles 3 to 12, may be cited together with the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Acts 1975 to 1986 and the Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 as the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Acts 1975 to 1988.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Head of the Department may by order appoint.\n(4) The following provisions of this Order shall come into operation on 1st April 1988—\nthis Article and Article 2;\n...\nArticle 16(2), so far as it relates to—\n(a)sections 45, 45A, 46, 47B and 66 of the principal Act;\n(b)Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1980; and\n(c)Article 15(4)(a) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;\nArticle 17.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1987 NI 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "partly excercised by SR 1988/126, 254, 380"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1992 c. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1980 NI 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "1985 NI 16"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1988/594/article/1",
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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."
}