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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-housing-costs-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/222",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-housing-costs-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Universal Credit Regulations” means the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016;\n“the Welfare Reform Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;\n“assessment period” has the same meaning as in Article 46 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;\n“broad rental market area” has the meaning given in regulation 3(3);\n“broad rental market area determination” means a determination made in accordance with regulation 3;\n“the Department” means the Department for Social Development;\n“dwelling” means any residential accommodation whether or not consisting of the whole or part of a building and whether or not comprising separate and self-contained premises;\n“the Executive” means the Northern Ireland Housing Executive;\n“service charge payments” has the meaning specified in paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 (meaning of payments in respect of accommodation) to the Universal Credit Regulations;\n“tenancy” includes—\n(a)a licence; and\n(b)a prospective tenancy or licence, and\nreferences to a tenant or any other expression appropriate to a tenancy shall be construed accordingly;\n“tenant” includes, where the tenant is a member of a couple within the meaning of Article 45 of the Welfare Reform Order, the other member of the couple;\n“uncontrolled tenancy” means a secure tenancy within the meaning of Article 25 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 or a tenancy which is not controlled within the meaning of Article 40(4) of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 ;\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day which is a public holiday in Northern Ireland.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations and notwithstanding section 39(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 , where a period of time is expressed to begin on, or to be reckoned from, a particular day, that day shall be included in the period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1118 (N.I. 15)."
    },
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      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1459 (N.I. 10)."
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      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/222/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:21.650574+00:00"
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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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