{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-68.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/68",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Payments treated as not being payments to which section 3 applies",
  "text": "The following payments are to be treated as not being payments to which section 3 of the Act applies—\n(a) any pension payment made to a claimant as a beneficiary on the death of a member of any pension scheme;\n(b) any PPF periodic payment made to a claimant as a beneficiary on the death of a person entitled to such a payment;\n(c) where a pension scheme is in deficit or has insufficient resources to meet the full pension payment, the extent of the shortfall;\n(d) any pension payment made under an instrument specified in section 639(2) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003;\n(e) any guaranteed income payment (which means a payment made under Article 15(1)(a) or 29(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011;\n(f) any permanent health insurance payment in respect of which the employee had contributed to the premium to the extent of more than 50 per cent..",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 68 in operation at 27.9.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 1. Section 639(2) was inserted by section 19 of the Finance Act 2005 (c.7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2011/517"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/219/regulation/68",
    "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."
}