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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015/article-138",
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  "legislation": "nisi/2015/2006",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-northern-ireland-order-2015",
  "path": "article/138",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "138",
  "heading": "Duty to ensure availability of advice and assistance",
  "text": "The Department must ensure that advice and assistance are made available free of charge to persons making a claim under this Order in connection with that claim.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 138 in operation at 17.2.2016 by S.R. 2016/46, art. 3(5)(h)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2015/2006/article/138",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:57.312183+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."
}