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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1992/78",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-working-allowance-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1992",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Persons of a prescribed description",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of Article 21(11) of the Order as it applies to disability working allowance is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is receiving full-time education within Article 4(1)(b) of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (meaning of child), and in these regulations such a person is referred to as “a young person”.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person—\n(a) who is entitled to income support or would, but for Article 21(9) of the Order, be so entitled;\n(b) who is receiving advanced education within the meaning of regulation 1(2) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 (interpretation); or\n(c) who has ceased to receive full-time education but is to continue to be treated as a child by virtue of regulation 7 of those regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 4(1)(b) was amended by Article 71(1)(a) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 5; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1980 No. 261, S.R. 1982 No. 114, S.R. 1987 No. 130 and S.R. 1988 No. 273"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/289",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1992/78/regulation/8",
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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."
}