{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-students-and-income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/242",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-students-and-income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Students and Income-Related Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation—\n(a) for the purpose of this regulation on 1st August 2000;\n(b) for the purposes of regulations 2 and 3—\n(i) in the case of a student whose period of study begins on, and including, or after 1st August 2000 but before 28th August 2000, on the day the period of study begins;\n(ii) in any other case, on 28th August 2000;\n(c) for the purpose of regulation 4—\n(i) in the case of a student whose period of study begins on, and including, or after 1st August 2000 but before 28th August 2000, on the first Monday of that period;\n(ii) in any other case on 28th August 2000.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/242/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:55.092078+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."
}