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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-earned-income-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/226",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit (Earned Income) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-earned-income-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 21st October 2020\nComing into operation 16th November 2020\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1A) and 165(1) to (4) and (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and now vested in it and Article 48(1) and (2) and paragraph 4(1)(b) and (c) of Schedule 1 to, the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.",
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8 Section 5(1A) was inserted by Article 104(3) of S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481. The Department for Social Development was renamed the Department for Communities in accordance with section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2015 / 2006 (N.I. 1)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/226/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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