{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-1.json",
  "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": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), come into operation on 27th October 2008.\n(2) Regulation 128(6)(a) and paragraph 15(2) of Schedule 6, so far as they apply to a maintenance calculation, in relation to a particular case shall come into operation on the day on which paragraph 12(e) of Schedule 3 to the 2000 Act comes into operation for the purposes of that type of case.\n(2A) These Regulations do not apply to a particular case on any day on which Article 39(1)(b) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (abolition of income-related employment and support allowance) is in force and applies in relation to that case.\n(3) Regulation 82 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 8, so far as they apply to additional statutory paternity pay, shall come into operation on the day on which regulations made under or by virtue of sections 167ZEA to 167ZEE of the Contributions and Benefits Act come into operation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 1(2A) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/236), regs. 1(1), 36(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 1(3) omitted (5.4.2015) by virtue of The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146), arts. 1(3), 17(2) (with art. 25)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 1 heading substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/236), regs. 1(1), 36(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 167ZEA to 167ZEE are inserted by Articles 8 to 12 of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/280/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:16.781320+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."
}