{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-work-related-activity-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-work-related-activity-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Failure to undertake work-related activity",
  "text": "(1) A person who is required to undertake work-related activity but fails to do so must show good cause for the failure within 5 working days of the date on which the Department gives notice of the failure.\n(2) The Department must determine whether a person who is required to undertake work-related activity has failed to do so and, if so, whether the person has shown good cause for the failure.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3) omitted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Employment and Support Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/240), regs. 1(1), 7(2) (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 12.7.2011, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/265/regulation/8",
    "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."
}