{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-5.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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Unified appeal tribunals",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order—\n(a) the functions of social security appeal tribunals, disability appeal tribunals and medical appeal tribunals constituted under Part II of the Administration Act;\n(b) the functions of child support appeal tribunals established under Article 23 of the Child Support Order; and\n(c) the functions of vaccine damage tribunals established by regulations made under section 4 of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act,\nare hereby transferred to appeal tribunals constituted under the following provisions of this Chapter.\n(2) Accordingly appeals under—\n(a) Article 13;\n(b) Article 22 of the Child Support Order, as substituted by Article 42;\n(c) section 4 of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act, as substituted by section 46 of the 1998 c.14. Social Security Act 1998; and\n(d) Article 13 of the Recovery of Benefits Order,\nshall be determined by appeal tribunals so constituted (in the following provisions of this Chapter referred to as “appeal tribunals”).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1506/article/5",
    "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."
}