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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/368",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews for Lone Parents and Partners) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-for-lone-parents-and-partners-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 19th October 2011\nComing into operation 31st October 2011\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2A(1), (2B), (3)(b) and (e), (5), (6) and (8), 2AA(1) and (6), 165(1), (4)(a), (5) and (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and now vested in it and sections 12(1), 13(1), 24(3B) and 25(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8; section 2A was inserted by Article 54 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)) and amended by sections 3(2) and 29(2) and (4) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13 (N.I.)); section 2AA was inserted by section 5 of the Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 10 (N.I.) ) and subsection (1) was amended by section 29(3)(a) and (4) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 and section 165(1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.); section 12(1) was amended by section 3(3) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 and section 24(3B) was inserted by section 3(5) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/368/introduction",
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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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