{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1506",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Finality of decisions",
  "text": "(1 ) Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, any decision made in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall be final; and subject to the provisions of any regulations under Article 12, any decision made in accordance with those regulations shall be final.\n(2) If and to the extent that regulations so provide, any finding of fact or other determination embodied in or necessary to such a decision, or on which such a decision is based, shall be conclusive for the purposes of—\n(a) further such decisions;\n(b) decisions made under the Child Support Order; and\n(c) decisions made under the Vaccine Damage Payments Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1999/349, 350"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "temp. mod. by SI 2002/2926"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "prosp. in pt. certain functions transf. by 2002 c. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "mod. by SI 2005/191"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 17 applied (with modifications) (30.11.2016) by The Childcare Payments (Appeals) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1078), regs. 1, 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1506/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:59.445846+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."
}