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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-students-and-income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/298",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-students-and-income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 in so far as they relate to students and sums to be disregarded in the calculation of their entitlement to benefit.\nThe amendments increase the amounts of grant and loan income to be disregarded in respect of travel costs and the costs of books and equipment and clarify that the disregards only apply once in every academic year.\nThe Regulations also make consequential revocations.\nIn so far as these Regulations are required, for the purposes of regulation 4, to be referred to the Social Security Advisory Committee under section 149(2) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee, they have not been so referred by virtue of section 150(1)(b) of that Act. Otherwise they make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, that Act, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/298/note",
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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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