{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-145",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-145.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/145",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "145",
  "heading": "Linking rules",
  "text": "(1) Any period of limited capability for work which is separated from another such period by not more than 12 weeks is to be treated as a continuation of the earlier period.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 145(2)-(5) omitted (1.5.2012) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment of Linking Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/919), regs. 1(2), 5(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 145(1) applied by SSI 2012/303 Sch. 1 para. 27(1)(c) (as amended (S.) (18.3.2013) by The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Amendment Regulations2013 (S.S.I. 2013/48), regs. 1, 14(l)(ii))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 145(1) applied by SI 2006/215 Sch. 1 para. 29(1)(c) (as substituted (1.5.2012) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment of Linking Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/919), regs. 1(2), 4(d))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Reg. 145(1) applied by SI 2006/213 Sch. 3 para. 29(1)(c) (as substituted (1.5.2012) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment of Linking Rules) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/919), regs. 1(2), 3(d))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/regulation/145",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:37:55.280707+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."
}