{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-work-related-activity-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-work-related-activity-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2011/265",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Work-related Activity) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-work-related-activity-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007;\n“action plan” means an action plan in accordance with regulation 5;\n“carer’s allowance”, “carer support payment”, “child”, “lone parent”, “medical treatment” and “working day” have the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations;\n“the Department”, for the purposes of Part 2 and 3, includes the Department for Employment and Learning;\n“the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008;\n“member of the support group” has the meaning given by section 24(4) of the Act; and\n“work-related activity” has the meaning given by section 13(7) of the Act.\n(2) For the purpose of these Regulations where a written notice is given by sending it by post it is taken to have been received on the second working day after posting.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 46(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 12.7.2011, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2008 No. 280"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/265/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:20:31.666821+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."
}