{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-transfer-of-staff-northern-ireland-order-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2038",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Transfer of Staff) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-transfer-of-staff-northern-ireland-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order transfers from the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland (“the Department”) to the Inland Revenue, the staff of the Family Credit Branch of the Social Security Agency, an executive Agency of the Department. This is in consequence of the transfer under the Tax Credits Act 1999 (c. 10) of functions relating to family credit and disability working allowance from the Department to the Treasury and the Inland Revenue on 5th October 1999. Family credit and disability working allowance are to become known as working families' tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit respectively as from 5th October 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2038/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:08.049374+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."
}