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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-and-pensions-1999-order-commencement-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform and Pensions (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PENSIONS; SOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 22nd May 2000\nThe Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 1(2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and now vested in it, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
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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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