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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 6th March 2008\nComing into operation 6th April 2008\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 171(3) and (5) of, and paragraph 5(7)(b) and (7A) of Schedule 3 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and now vested in it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.7; paragraph 5(7A) was inserted by section 36 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
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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."
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