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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2007/2",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make such provision as the Department considers necessary or expedient—\n(a) in connection with the coming into operation of any provision of, or repeal relating to, this Part, or\n(b) otherwise for the purposes of, or in connection with, the transition to employment and support allowance.\n(2) The following provisions of this Schedule are not to be taken as prejudicing the generality of sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1 wholly in operation at 27.7.2008; Sch. 4 para. 1 not in operation at Royal Assent see s. 60(1); Sch. 4 para. 1(1) in operation for certain purposes at 1.7.2008 and wholly in operation at 27.7.2008 by S.R. 2008/276, art. 2(2)(a); Sch. 4 para. 1(2) in operation at 27.7.2008 by S.R. 2008/276, art. 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2007/2/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:31.107511+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}