{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-7B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991/regulation-7B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2887",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/7B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7B",
  "heading": "Days to be disregarded",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 129(2B)(c) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (days to be disregarded in determining a period of training for work) there shall be disregarded any day on which the claimant was—\n(a) on holiday;\n(b) attending court as a justice of the peace, a party to any proceedings, a witness or a juror;\n(c) suffering from some disease or bodily or mental disablement as a result of which he was unable to attend training for work, or his attendance would have put at risk the health of other persons;\n(d) unable to participate in training for work because—\n(i) he was looking after a child because the person who usually looked after that child was unable to do so;\n(ii) he was looking after a member of his family who was ill;\n(iii) he was required to deal with some domestic emergency; or\n(iv) he was arranging or attending the funeral of his partner or a relative; or\n(e) authorised by the training provider to be absent from training for work.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d)(iv), “relative\" means close relative, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 7A, 7B inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Disability Working Allowance and Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/482), regs. 1(1)(b), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2887/regulation/7B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:00.399326+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."
}