{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2016/9780338004437",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 3 of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 after paragraph (j) add the following paragraph—\n“(k) a reduction under regulation 73D of the Housing Benefit Regulations of the amount of housing benefit to which a person is entitled if that reduction—\n(i) relates to the housing benefit of a person who is entitled to a welfare supplementary payment under Part 2 of the Welfare Supplementary Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016; and\n(ii) is no more than the amount specified in regulation 4(4) of those Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2001 No. 216; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2002 No. 80, SR. 2008 No.111, S.R. 2011 No. 291, S.R. 2012 No. 44 and S.R. 2014 No. 150"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2016/9780338004437/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:42.982441+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."
}