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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-and-statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/188",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) and Statutory Maternity Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-and-statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "STATUTORY SICK PAY;\nSTATUTORY MATERNITY PAY\nMade 30th March 2005\nComing into operation in accordance with regulation 1(1)\nThe Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 107(1)(b), 122(5), 124(4) and 165(1) and (5) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and now vested in it, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the concurrence of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, by this statutory rule which contains only regulations made by virtue of, or consequential upon, section 10 of the National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Act 2004, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8; section 107 was substituted by Article 56 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and paragraph (1) was amended by paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), sections 122(5) and 124(4) were inserted by section 10(2) and (3) respectively of the National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Act 2004 (c. 3) 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": "2004 c. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/188/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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