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  "legislation": "nisr/1992/78",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/26",
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  "number": "26",
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  "text": "(1) Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling.\n(2) In this paragraph “dwelling” includes any garage, garden and outbuildings which were formerly occupied by the claimant as his home and any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately.",
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