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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-2007-act-commencement-no-5-order-northern-ireland-2008/schedule/part-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/276",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform (2007 Act) (Commencement No. 5) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-2007-act-commencement-no-5-order-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "schedule/part/1",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS COMING INTO OPERATION ON 1st JULY 2008 FOR THE PURPOSE ONLY OF AUTHORISING THE MAKING OF REGULATIONS, AND ON 27th OCTOBER 2008 FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES",
  "text": "Provisions\nSubject Matter\nSection 2(1)(a) and (c) and (4)(a) and (c)\nAmount of contributory allowance\nSection 3(1)(c) and (2)(b) and (d) and (3) (for the purposes of prescribing a payment under paragraph (b) of the definition of “pension payment”)\nDeductions from contributory allowance: supplementary\nSection 4(2)(a), (3) and (6)(a) and (c)\nAmount of income-related allowance\nSection 5(2) and (3)\nAdvance award of income-related allowance\nSection 8 (except subsection (4)(c))\nLimited capability for work\nSection 9 (except subsection (4)(c))\nLimited capability for work-related activity\nSection 11(1), (2)(a) to (g), (3) to (5), (6)(a) and (7)(c)\nWork-focused health-related assessments\nSection 12 (except subsection (2)(i))\nWork-focused interviews\nSection 14(1) and (2)(a) and (b)\nAction plans in connection with work-focused interviews\nSection 16(2)(a) and (4)\nContracting out\nSection 17\nIncome and capital: general\nSection 18(1), (2) and (4)\nDisqualification\nSection 20(2) to (7)\nRelationship with statutory payments\nSection 23(1) and (3)\nRecovery of sums in respect of maintenance\nSection 24(1) (for the purpose of defining “employment”, “employed”, “period of limited capability for work”, “prescribed”, “regulations” and “week”) and (2)(b) and (3)\nInterpretation, etc. of Part 1\nSchedule 1, paragraphs 1(4), 3(2), 4(1)(a) and (c), (3) and (4) and 6(1)(b), (2) to (4), (5) (for the purposes of the meaning of “couple”, “education” and “remunerative work”), (7) and (8) and section 1 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nEmployment and support allowance: additional conditions\nSchedule 2, paragraphs 1 to 7, 8(1), 9, 10, 12 and 14 and section 22 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nEmployment and support allowance: supplementary provisions\nSchedule 3, paragraphs 2(1) and (8), 3(1), (3)(b) and (4), 4(3) to (8) and (11), 6(1) and (2), 9, 10(7), 12, 13 and 14(1) to (5) and (8) and section 28(1) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nConsequential amendments relating to Part 1",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/276/schedule/part/1",
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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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