{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/280",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Security\nMade 1st July 2008\nComing into operation in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and Article 21(1)(a) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, and now vested in it, and sections 2(1)(a) and (c) and (4)(a) and (c), 3(1)(c), (2)(b) and (d) and (3), 4(2)(a), (3) and (6)(a) and (c), 5(2) and (3), 8(1) to (3), (4)(a) and (b), (5) and (6), 9(1) to (3) and (4)(a) and (b), 11(1), (2)(a) to (g), (3) to (5), (6)(a) and (7)(c), 12(1), (2)(a) to (h) and (3) to (7), 14(1) and (2)(a) and (b), 16(2)(a) and (4), 17, 18(1), (2) and (4), 20(2) to (7), 23(1) and (3), 24(1), (2)(b) and (3), 25(1) and (2) and 26(1) of, and paragraphs 1(4), 3(2), 4(1)(a) and (c), (3) and (4), 6(1)(b), (2) to (5), (7) and (8) of Schedule 1 and paragraphs 1 to 7, 8(1), 9, 10, 12 and 14 of Schedule 2 to, the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.\nThis Rule contains only regulations made by virtue of, or consequential upon, provisions of Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions and Housing Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/312), regs. 1, 16(1)(2)(e)(3), Sch. 2 Pt. 3 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Rules applied (with modifications) (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions and Housing Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/312), regs. 1, 6(1)(2)(e), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Rules modified (temp.) (8.4.2020) by The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/63), regs. 1(1), 2(1)(2)(d) (with reg. 6(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8; section 5(1) was amended by Article 3(1) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)), Article 70 of, and paragraph 60(1) of Schedule 6 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2007 c. 2 (N.I.); see definitions of “employment” and “employed”, “period of limited capability for work” and “week” in section 24(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/280/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}