{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-supplementary-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 3",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\n“contributory employment and support allowance” means an employment and support allowance entitlement to which is based on section 1(2)(a) of the WRA 2007;\n“ESA Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008;\n“income-related employment and support allowance” means an employment and support allowance entitlement to which is based on section 1(2)(b) of the WRA 2007;\n“new award of income-related employment and support allowance” means—\n(a) in cases in which a person makes a claim for an income-related employment and support allowance within the period mentioned in regulation 7(2)(b), the award made pursuant to the original decision in respect of that claim;\n(b) in all other cases, the award in existence immediately after the cessation of an award of contributory employment and support allowance as a consequence of section 1A of the WRA 2007;\n“previous award of contributory employment and support allowance” means the award in existence immediately prior to its cessation as a consequence of section 1A of the WRA 2007;\n“previous award of employment and support allowance” means the award in existence immediately prior to the cessation of a contributory employment and support allowance as a consequence of section 1A of the WRA 2007;\n“relevant date” in respect of a person means the date on which chapters 1 and 2 of Part 2 of the Order are commenced in respect of a group of people of which that person forms part;\n“WRA 2007” means the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 465"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2008 No.280"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 1A was inserted by Article 57 of S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2007 (c. 2 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2016/9780338004437/regulation/6",
    "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."
}