{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-48.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2017/9780338006882",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/48",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Welfare supplementary payment (under Part 3 or 5) where a couple separates",
  "text": "After regulation 22C insert—\n“Welfare supplementary payment (under Part 3 or 5) where a couple separates\n22D. (1) This regulation applies where—\n(a) A and B were a couple,\n(b) on or after 20 July 2016, A and B ceased to be a couple, and\n(c) immediately before that, A was entitled to welfare supplementary payment under regulation 8 or regulation 16.\n(2) After they cease to be a couple, only the person by virtue of whom—\n(a) the carer premium entitlement condition was satisfied under regulation 8, or\n(b) the additional amount (carer) entitlement condition was satisfied under regulation 16,\nas the case may be, is entitled to welfare supplementary payment (under the Part to which A was originally entitled to welfare supplementary payment).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2017/9780338006882/regulation/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:36.539916+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."
}