{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-51.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "General principles for calculating reduction periods",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the reduction period is to be determined in relation to each sanctionable failure in accordance with regulations 52 and 53.\n(2) Reduction periods are to run consecutively.\n(3) Where the reduction period calculated in relation to a sanctionable failure in accordance with regulation 52 or 53 would result in the total outstanding reduction period exceeding 546 days, the number of days in the reduction period in relation to that failure is to be adjusted so that 546 days is not exceeded.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 51(1) substituted (1.11.2021) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/288), regs. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 51(4) omitted (1.11.2021) by virtue of The Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/288), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 51 in operation at 27.9.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/219/regulation/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:24.129843+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."
}