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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-work-focused-interviews-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “the date of notification” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““designated authority” has the meaning it has in regulation 1(2) of the Work-focused Interviews Regulations;”;\n(b) for the definition of “official error” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““official error” means an error made by—\n(a) an officer of the Department, the Board or the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment acting as such which no person outside any of those Departments or the Board caused or to which no person outside any of those Departments or the Board materially contributed;\n(b) a person employed by a designated authority acting on behalf of the authority, which no person outside that authority caused or to which no person outside that authority materially contributed,\nbut excludes any error of law which is only shown to have been an error by virtue of a subsequent decision of a Commissioner or the court;”;\n(c) after the definition of “referral” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““relevant authority” means the Department, the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment or a person providing services to either of those Departments;”;\n(d) after the definition of “widowed parent’s allowance” there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““work-focused interview” has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Work-focused Interviews Regulations;\n“the Work-focused Interviews Regulations” means the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “official error” was amended by Article 3(2)(a)(iii) of S.R. 1999 No. 271 (C.22) and regulation 6(2)(d) of S.R. 2000 No. 215"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Definition of “widowed parent’s allowance” was added by regulation 12(2)(b) of S.R. 2001 No. 108"
    },
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 2001 No. 176"
    }
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