{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2013/2",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 3 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 3 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (assessment of whether a claimant has limited capability for work-related activity)—\n(a) in Activity 1 for the wording in column 1 substitute—\n“1. Mobilising unaided by another person with or without a walking stick, manual wheelchair or other aid if such aid is normally, or could reasonably be, worn or used.”;\n(b) in Activity 6, for the wording in column 1 substitute—\n“6. Making self understood through speaking, writing, typing, or other means which are normally, or could reasonably be, used, unaided by another person.”;\n(c) in Activity 7, for the wording in column 1 substitute—\n“7. Understanding communication by—\n(a) verbal means (such as hearing or lip reading) alone, or\n(b) non-verbal means (such as reading 16 point print or Braille) alone, or\n(c) a combination of (a) and (b),\nusing any aid that is normally or could reasonably be used, unaided by another person.”; and\n(d) in Activity 8, for the wording in column 1 substitute—\n“8. Absence or loss of control whilst conscious leading to extensive evacuation of the bowel and/or voiding of the bladder, other than enuresis (bed-wetting), despite the wearing or use of any aids or adaptations which are normally, or could reasonably be, worn or used.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Schedule 3 was substituted by regulation 3(6) of S.R. 2011 No. 76"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/2/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:28.758355+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."
}