{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-71A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-71A.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/71A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "71A",
  "heading": "Duration of extended payment period (qualifying contributory benefits)",
  "text": "(1) Where a claimant is entitled to an extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits), the extended payment period starts on the first day of the benefit week immediately following the benefit week in which the claimant, or the claimant’s partner, ceased to be entitled to a qualifying contributory benefit.\n(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), a claimant or a claimant’s partner ceases to be entitled to a qualifying contributory benefit on the day immediately following the last day of entitlement to that benefit.\n(3) The extended payment period ends—\n(a) at the end of a period of 4 weeks; or\n(b) on the date on which the claimant to whom the extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) is payable has no liability for rent or rates, if that occurs first.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 71-71C substituted for reg. 71 (6.10.2008) by The Housing Benefit (Extended Payments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/285), regs. 1(1), 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/71A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:14.194536+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."
}