{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/270",
  "legislation_title": "The Discretionary Support Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Persons excluded from discretionary support",
  "text": "Discretionary support may not be awarded in respect of a person who is—\n(a) a prisoner or a person who is lawfully detained or is on temporary release under rule 27 of the Prisons and Young Offenders Centres Rules (Northern Ireland) 1995 ;\n(b) a resident in a residential care home, a nursing home or a hospital in-patient, unless it is expected that the person will be discharged within the following 2 weeks;\n(c) a member of a religious order who is fully maintained by that order;\n(d) listed in regulation 14 (a) to (c) unless regulation 14 applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.R. 1995 No. 8 as amended by S.R 1997 No. 86 and S.R. 2009 No. 429."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/270/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:55:46.466468+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."
}