{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-145",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-145.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/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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 145(2)-(5) omitted (28.11.2016) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment of Linking Rules) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/176), regs. 1(2), 4(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 145 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/280/regulation/145",
    "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."
}