{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/283",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-transitional-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transitional protection in relation to the Jobseekers Order",
  "text": "In relation to a person who—\n(a) is entitled to an existing award; or\n(b) would be entitled to an existing award if that person made a claim described in regulation 2(2),\nthe Jobseekers Order shall continue to have effect as if paragraphs 6(2)(b), (3) and (6) of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 had not come into operation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/283/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:40.860529+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."
}