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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-amendment-northern-ireland-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2175",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-amendment-northern-ireland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No. 28) (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 1 provides for citation and commencement, and regulation 2 for interpretation.\nRegulation 3 introduces the amendments to the principal Regulations made by regulations 4 and 5.\nRegulation 4 inserts a new definition of “the Computation of Earnings Regulations” in regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations.\nRegulation 5 inserts new regulations 17A and 17B in the principal Regulations providing for the meaning and calculation of “earnings” of employed earners and self-employed earners respectively for the purposes of state pension credit.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2175/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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